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ultramarine

Syllables: ul·tra·mar·ine/ˌʌltɹəməˈɹiːn/US/ˌəltɹəməˈɹin/

ultramarine adjective: beyond the sea.

Adjective

ultramarine (comparative more ultramarine, superlative most ultramarine)

  1. (archaic) Beyond the sea.
    • [I]n England we ſhall never be taught to look upon the annihilation of our trade, the ruin of our credit, the defeat of our armies, and the loſs of our ultramarine dominions (whatever the author may think of them), to be the high road to proſperity and greatneſs.1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 8
    Antonyms:
    cismarine
  2. Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish color like that of the pigment (noun sense 1).

Noun

ultramarine (countable and uncountable, plural ultramarines)

  1. In full ultramarine blue: a brilliant blue pigment traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli, and now usually either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically.
  2. A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment.
    • The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The...

ultramarine meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Malay

ultramarine in Tamil

கருநீலக்கல், சலவை நீலம்

ultramarine in Bengali

সমুদ্রের ওপারে অবস্থিত, প্রাচীন, সাহিত্যিক অর্থে বিদেশী, গাঢ় নীল, আসমানী রঙের, আল্ট্রামেরিন রঙের

ultramarine in Kannada

ಕಡುನೀಲಬಣ್ಣ, ಕೃತಕ ನೀಲವರ್ಣ ದ್ರವ್ಯ, ಸಮುದ್ರದಾಚೆಯ, ಸಮುದ್ರಪಾರಸ್ಥ

ultramarine in Malay

of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
ultramarin
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ultramarine in Indonesian
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ultramarine in Vietnamese
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Forms of ultramarine

Adjective
comparativemore ultramarine
superlativemost ultramarine
Noun
pluralultramarines

Origin of ultramarine

Borrowed from Medieval Latin ultrāmarīnus, from Latin ultrā (“beyond”) + marīnus (“of or relating to the sea, marine”). By surface analysis, ultra + marine. Noun sense 1 (“pigment”) refers to the fact that lapis lazuli was obtained from foreign countries and hence “beyond the sea”.

Words formed from ultramarine

Phrases with ultramarine

Words that rhyme with ultramarine

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Questions about ultramarine

What does ultramarine mean?
Ultramarine means beyond the sea.
What is ultramarine in Tamil?
Ultramarine in Tamil is கருநீலக்கல், சலவை நீலம். See Ultramarine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ultramarine?
Ultramarine can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce ultramarine?
Ultramarine is pronounced /ˌʌltɹəməˈɹiːn/ (UK).

Words near ultramarine in the dictionary

  1. ultramarathoners
  2. ultramarathoning
  3. ultramarathonist
  4. ultramarathonists
  5. ultramarathons
  6. ultramarine
  7. ultramarine ash
  8. ultramarine ashes
  9. ultramarines
  10. ultramasculine
  11. ultramasculinity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ultramarine (page history and authors); ultramarine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ultramarine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ultramarine (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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