viridian
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- noun
- /vɪˈrɪdiən/
- Specialized
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viridiano
- The artist added viridian to the landscape to enhance the lushness of the trees.
- viridian and cobalt
- viridian and cadmium
- viridian green
Examples
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And now I'm going to do the tones with that blue-green, the Viridian Lake color.
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His right hand was stained with chrome yellow and viridian.
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"Viridian" is a lovely word.
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And now I'm going to do the tones with that blue-green, the Viridian Lake color.
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Viridian.
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Oh, there's Bruce Sterling's Viridian list and website, there's Worldchanging, and there has been political debate.
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"On every side of him, the cold viridian waters stretched as far as he could see, and for every wave that reared and whinnied upon those waters, there was a question to rear and whinny in his mind.
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An early version of this sentiment was presented via Bruce Sterling's Viridian Design Movement, an aesthetic ideal that advocated for innovative and technological solutions to environmental problems.
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Synonyms
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A dark blue color with a little green that artists use for painting
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A color that is a mix of blue and green
How Blue-Green
Surface Forms
Morphology
viridian = virid (opaque) = virid + ian
Formed from a Latin-derived combining form ('virid-') plus the suffix '-ian', but the root is not a productive or familiar English base for average learners.
Etymology
Viridian comes from the Latin word viridis, which means 'green', and was used to name a paint color that looks like fresh pine leaves. So viridian is the blue-green pigment artists use.