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blue-skies

blue-skies adjective: unrealistic or impractical.

Adjective

blue-skies (not comparable)

  1. Unrealistic or impractical.
  2. Of no immediate practical application.
    • blue-skies research
    • These options can be presented either as 'blue skies', i.e. no constraints are imposed by the existing systems, or as 'pragmatic reality', i.e. building on the existing systems. It is better to take a blue skies approach to strategic information […]1992, Gary Heap, Alfie Windsor, A structured approach to systems development, McGraw-Hill
    Synonyms:
    theoretical
    Antonyms:
    real-world

Synonyms of blue-skies

Antonyms

Forms of blue-skies

alternative formblue skies
alternative formblue-sky
alternative formbluesky

Questions about blue-skies

What does blue-skies mean?
Blue-skies means unrealistic or impractical.
What part of speech is blue-skies?
Blue-skies is an adjective.

Words near blue-skies in the dictionary

  1. blue-rinses
  2. blue-rinsing
  3. blue-sided leaf frog
  4. blue-sided leaf frogs
  5. blue-skied
  6. blue-skies
  7. blue-sky
  8. blue-sky law
  9. blue-sky laws
  10. blue-sky thinking
  11. blue-skying

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