SKY-BLUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sky-blue mean? 

• SKY-BLUE (noun)
  The noun SKY-BLUE has 1 sense:

1. a light shade of blue

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

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

1. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKY-BLUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light shade of blue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

azure; cerulean; lazuline; sapphire; sky-blue

Hypernyms ("sky-blue" is a kind of...):

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

• SKY-BLUE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky

Synonyms:

azure; bright blue; cerulean; sky-blue

Context example:

October's bright blue weather

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

That sky-blue suit you used to wear.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They laced her into a sky-blue dress, which was so tight she could hardly breathe and so low in the neck that modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I remember her appearance at the moment—it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue crape; a gauzy azure scarf was twisted in her hair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In a tight sky-blue suit that made his arms and legs like German sausages, or roly-poly puddings, he was the merriest and most miserable of all the boys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They are very pretty, but I think you're rather too young for such ornaments, Amy, said Mrs. March, looking at the plump little hand, with the band of sky-blue stones on the forefinger, and the quaint guard formed of two tiny golden hands clasped together.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“If I was ever to be a lady, I'd give him a sky-blue coat with diamond buttons, nankeen trousers, a red velvet waistcoat, a cocked hat, a large gold watch, a silver pipe, and a box of money.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)