indigo
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- noun
- /ˈɪndɪɡoʊ/
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índigo
- The sky was layered: salmon through the trees, indigo above them.
- indigo and blue
- indigo and violet
- indigo and green
It contains red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, if you love Newton as I do.
- It contains red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, if you love Newton as I do.
- One other light you might see is purple or indigo.
- The colors outside the window change from blue to indigo to midnight black as you read space.
- The city was awash with the pale indigo of the Jacaranda trees, and there's an old proverb which says that Jacaranda time is madness time.
- But if you read about with the Native Americans, indigo meant that there was a shunt between you here on earth and the ethereal and the spiritual world.
Examples
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The skin beneath my fingernails was stained indigo from my work.
Academic text (2007) -
The artist chose an indigo shade for the background of her painting to evoke a sense of calm.
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Then he turned to look east again, watching the indigo sky come over the city.
Fiction book (1996) -
Some people do not see indigo as a separate color because they never learned to.
Blog text (24) -
At last he saw the indigo form of a wolf on the night snow.
Fiction book (1998) -
From out of the indigo, she saw headlights approach, then heard a truck pull up and stop.
Fiction book (1998) -
A watery moon illuminates an indigo sea; the air is moist and cool for the first time all day.
Fiction book (1996) -
The city was awash with the pale indigo of the Jacaranda trees, and there's an old proverb which says that Jacaranda time is madness time.
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I'm thankful for it all, really, the pain and the pleasure, all the quiet joys and the loud despairs, the rosy peaks and the indigo valleys.
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Three such pairs are the black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks, the indigo and lazuli buntings, and the Baltimore and Bullock's orioles.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
A color like a clear sky between green and violet
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A blue color with a purple tint
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A blue color with a little purple in it
A blue color with a small red tint like the sky at dusk
Compounds
A North American plant that lives for many years with spikes of blue flowers and gray-green leaves
A large nonvenomous snake with shiny blue-black skin that lives in the southeastern United States
- Specialized
A North American shrub with blue or purple flowers often grown in gardens
A North American plant with blue-violet star-shaped flowers that lives for many years
A small North American songbird with bright blue feathers on the male during breeding season
- US
A large dark blue nonvenomous snake in southern North America and Mexico that often enters burrows
- US
A North American plant with blue, white, or yellow flowers that grows in prairies and open woods
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Etymology
Indigo originally named a blue dye from India that gave a very deep blue color. So indigo now means the deep blue-violet color between blue and violet.