Dark-blue

Definition: Dark-blue

Dark-blue

Adjective

1. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke".

Date "dark-blue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Synonyms: Dark-blue

Synonyms: blue (adj), blueish (adj), bluish (adj), light-blue (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Dark-blue

English words defined with "dark-blue": American flagfish ♦ black haw, blueberry ♦ Drymarchon corais ♦ flagfish ♦ gopher snake ♦ indigo snake ♦ Jordanella floridae ♦ Viburnum prunifolium. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dark-blue": Yogo sapphire. (references)

Etymologies containing "dark-blue": OEnocyan. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		With these stains, Negri bodies appear magenta in color and have small (0.2 �m to 0.5 �m), dark-blue interior basophilic granules. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Dark-blue" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dark-blue" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	25	69,787

Language		Translations for "dark-blue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		紺絣 (dark-blue cloth with white splash patterns). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"�"がすり (dark-blue cloth with white splash patterns). (various references)

Pig Latin		ark-blueday.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-k-l-r-u"
	-1 letter: baulked, durable.
	-2 letters: aulder, balder, balked, balker, barked, belaud, blared, braked, bulked, burked, burled, darkle, dauber, debark, larked, lauder, lurked.
	-3 letters: abler, alder, ardeb, baked, baker, baled, baler, barde, bared, baulk, beard, blade, blare, bleak, blear, blued, bluer, brake, bread, break, burke, daube, debar, drake, dural, kebar, lader, laked, laker, lubed, lured, raked, redub, ruble, ruled, ureal.
	-4 letters: abed, able, auld, bade, bake, bald, bale, balk, bard, bare, bark, baud, bead, beak, bear, beau, bedu, blae, bled, blue, blur, brad, brae, bred, bulk, bura, burd, burl, dale, darb, dare, dark, daub, deal, dear, drab, drek, drub, dual, duel, duke, dura, dure, earl, kale, kbar, kerb, lade, lake, lard, lark, laud, lead, leak, lear, leku, leud, lube, lude, lure, lurk, rake, rale, read, real, rube, rude, rued, rule, urea.
	-5 letters: alb, ale, arb, are, ark, auk, bad, bal, bar, bed, bel, bra, bud, bur, dab, dak, dal, deb, del, dub, due, ear, eau, eld, elk, era, kab, kae, kea, kue, lab, lad, lar, lea, led, lek, leu, rad, reb, red, rub, rue, uke, urb, urd.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-k-l-r-u"
	+1 letter: bulwarked.
	+2 letters: parbuckled.
	+3 letters: undrinkable.
	+4 letters: blackguarded.
	+5 letters: doublespeaker.
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