DARK BLUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dark blue mean? 

• DARK BLUE (noun)
  The noun DARK BLUE has 1 sense:

1. a dark shade of blue

  Familiarity information: DARK BLUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARK BLUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dark shade of blue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dark blue; navy; navy blue

Hypernyms ("dark blue" is a kind of...):

blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)

 Context examples 

Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man's moods.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The spots can be black, brown (liver), lemon, dark blue, tri colored, brindled, solid white, or sable.

(Dalmatian, NCI Thesaurus)

Lord Byron's "dark blue seas" could not fail of being brought forward by their present view, and she gladly gave him all her attention as long as attention was possible.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A jupon of dark blue cloth, tagged with buckles and pendants of gold, seemed but a sombre and plain attire amidst the wealth of silk and ermine and gilt tissue of fustian with which he was surrounded.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When my uncle spoke like this there was always that dancing, mischievous light in his dark blue eyes, which showed me that this humour of his was a conscious eccentricity, depending, as I believe, upon a natural fastidiousness of taste, but wilfully driven to grotesque lengths for the very reason which made him recommend me also to develop some peculiarity of my own.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was above the usual size, with a soft lead, the outer colour was dark blue, the maker’s name was printed in silver lettering, and the piece remaining is only about an inch and a half long.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman's shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When she was a child, he said, lifting up his head soon after we were left alone, she used to talk to me a deal about the sea, and about them coasts where the sea got to be dark blue, and to lay a-shining and a-shining in the sun.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The geometry of the nanoparticles when they bind into clusters determines which colour they appear as: when the nanoparticles are spread apart they are red and when they cluster together they are dark blue.

(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)

Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)