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unblue

unblue adjective: not blue.

Adjective

unblue (not comparable)

  1. (regional) Not blue.
    • […] a god in an unblue sky.1992, Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda Davies, editors, Glimmer Train Stories
    • Soon an associational chain reaction occurs that stains blue all that has remained unblue...1997, University of Arizona Dept. of English, Sonora Review

Verb

unblue (third-person singular simple present unblues, present participle unblueing or unbluing, simple past and past participle unblued)

  1. (intransitive, poetic, rare) To cease being blue.
    • Blue at some distances unblues, […]2006, Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems, →ISBN, page 26
    • The boy was very hurt in the throat and his face was only now unbluing.2007, Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, →ISBN, page 18
  2. (poetic, rare, transitive) To cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.
    • […] to clothe bodies surprised by bullets, to unblue hands frozen in ditches, […]1987, Indiana Review, number 10, page 24
    • They look like iced teeth where a storm unblues them.2010, Ron Dakron, Newt, →ISBN, page 26

Examples of unblue in a sentence

  • A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue, tells us that some ink is blue.2000, Charles Travis, Unshadowed thought: representation in thought and language:
  • Mind you, if they fly in downstairs, they are quite happy to settle for unblue mangoes.2007, Barbara Blackman, Bryony Cosgrove, Judith Wright, Portrait of a friendship:

Forms of unblue

third-person singular presentunblues
present participleunblueing
present participleunbluing
past participleunblued
pastunblued

Origin of unblue

From un- + blue.

Questions about unblue

What does unblue mean?
Unblue means not blue.
How do you use unblue in a sentence?
A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue, tells us that some ink is blue.
What part of speech is unblue?
Unblue can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unblue in the dictionary

  1. unblousing
  2. unblowable
  3. unblowed
  4. unblown
  5. unbludgeoned
  6. unblue
  7. unblued
  8. unblueing
  9. unblues
  10. unbluffable
  11. unbluffed

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