Antonyms for cerulean

Grammar : Adj

Spell : suh-roo-lee-uh n

Phonetic Transcription : səˈru li ən

Definition of cerulean

Origin : 1660s, with -an + Latin caeruleus "blue, dark blue, blue-green," perhaps dissimilated from caelulum, diminutive of caelum "heaven, sky," of uncertain origin (see celestial). The Latin word was applied by Roman authors to the sky, the Mediterranean, and occasionally to leaves or fields. As a noun, from 1756.

As in azure : adj purplish blue
As in blue : adj sky, sea color
As in sky-blue : adj azure

Example sentences :

Or the cerulean borrowed from the tint of the southern indigo.
Extract from : « Man of Uz, and Other Poems » by Lydia Howard Sigourney

And out of these shone, shone on us, the cerulean and sapphire glory!
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 » by Various

Let me know whether you intend to wear one of your cerulean shades.
Extract from : « Molly Brown's Freshman Days » by Nell Speed

So we went, all of us, back through vast woodland to cerulean water.
Extract from : « 1492 » by Mary Johnston

Blue, blue, as if the sky let fallA flower from its cerulean wall!
Extract from : « The Garden, You, and I » by Mabel Osgood Wright

And they seemed to envelop her in a flash of cerulean light.
Extract from : « The Torrent » by Vicente Blasco Ibaez

They were not looking at the bay, exquisite as it was in its cerulean beauty.
Extract from : « Flood Tide » by Sara Ware Bassett

Beatrix dug her cerulean parasol deep into the pine-needles and sighed.
Extract from : « Options » by O. Henry

The cerulean tint seems much rarer among the feathered tribes there than here.
Extract from : « Wake-Robin » by John Burroughs

To my great delight it bore a few precious flowers of cerulean hue daintily striped with white.
Extract from : « A Garden with House Attached » by Sarah Warner Brooks

Synonyms for cerulean

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