aqua
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈækwə/
:
verde agua
- The artist used aqua as the main color in her painting to create a calming effect.
Examples
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The house was white clapboard with aqua trim around the windows and tangerine paint on the door.
Fiction book (1999) -
Its heroine is shuffling through the warm sands of a secluded, palm-fringed beach in Bali, aqua waves lapping about her.
Academic text (2011) -
This corresponds to between the Aqua color and the green color.
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It's got bits of green and red and aqua all through it.
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Now she was sitting on the aqua sofa, looking sad again.
Fiction book (1992) -
"I painted the other two sunny yellow and aqua, and it really works with both colors."
Blog text (8) -
Golden sands, aqua-blue surf.
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She's wearing an aqua terry-cloth shirt with tiny flowers embroidered along the collar.
Fiction book (1994) -
The walls of the room were painted in a soothing shade of aqua that reminded her of the ocean.
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He chose an aqua dress for the summer party to match the clear sky.
Synonyms
31
2.7
A blue-green color often used for clothes or walls
26
3.7
A green-blue color like the water in a tropical sea
6
1.8
A color that is a mix of blue and green
5
3.5
A light green color that is between blue and yellow
3
4.6
A pale blue-green color like the sea
2
3.7
A pale green-blue color like the bubbles on the sea
1
2.5
A blue color with a little green in it
Green with a small blue tone
A blue-green color like the sea
A blue-green color like fresh pine leaves
A green color like a gem, often slightly blue or yellow
Compounds
- Specialized
A very strong mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that can dissolve gold and platinum
How Blue-Green
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word aqua comes from the Latin aqua, which means 'water', and you can see the same root in aquarium and aquatic, both about water. So aqua as a color is the light blue-green that looks like water.