azure
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5.8
- adjective
- /ˈæʒər/
:
azul celeste
- As I looked out over the azure ocean, I felt a sense of calm wash over me.
- azure skies
Examples
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The sky was a brilliant shade of azure, perfect for a summer's day.
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Her eyes are azure, like the Venus-appearing sky.
Fiction book (2000) -
And the sky is as azure as her eyes.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her shorts were azure-colored, brief, and easily lifted by the tongue of warm air.
Fiction book (1994) -
The water was azure, so beautiful in comparison to Kishinev's mulch lakes and loam pools.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then we've got an Azure Rush Geranium right here, which have these kind of periwinkle blue blooms with the white eye, really interesting.
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In contrast to the large, azure lake that supports fishing activities and a whole town on its distant shore, the swamp's brackish water is painted in very dark hues, even taking into account the possible sinking of some of the green and blue pigments.
Academic text (2004) -
Her dress was a lovely azure that reminded me of the clear afternoon sky.
Synonyms
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1.0
The color between green and violet like a clear sky
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1.0
A deep blue color that has a slight purple hint like a clear autumn sky
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3.1
A deep blue color with a purple tint
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8.1
Deep blue like a clear bright sky
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2.1
Deep blue with a little purple like a clear autumn sky
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7.9
Has a bright deep blue color like the sea
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3.0
A blue color with a little purple in it
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2.8
A blue color with a little purple
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3.9
A blue color with a purple tint
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4.0
Having a deep purplish-blue color between blue and purple
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4.0
Having a deep rich blue color like a jewel
Having a bright sky-blue color like a clear sky
Compounds
- US
A long-lived plant with bright blue daisy-like flowers that blooms in late summer
How Blue
Surface Forms
Etymology
Azure comes from a Persian word lajvard for a blue stone called 'lapis lazuli', and it passed into English through Arabic al-lazaward and Old French. Because that stone and its pigment are a bright, clear sky-blue, azure describes a deep, bright sky-like blue.