DARK-BLUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dark-blue mean? 

• DARK-BLUE (adjective)
  The adjective DARK-BLUE has 1 sense:

1. of a dark shade of blue

  Familiarity information: DARK-BLUE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARK-BLUE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a dark shade of blue

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

A dark-blue oar crossed with a cherry-pink one above his mantel-piece spoke of the old Oxonian and Leander man, while the foils and boxing-gloves above and below them were the tools of a man who had won supremacy with each.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had then on a dark-blue silk dress; her arms and her neck were bare; her only ornament was her chestnut tresses, which waved over her shoulders with all the wild grace of natural curls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)