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unblue

adj

Etymology

From un- + blue.

  1. derived from *bʰlēw-✻
  2. inherited from *blēwaz✻
  3. derived from blāvus
  4. derived from *blāu✻ — “blue”
  5. derived from bloe
  6. derived from bleu
  7. derived from blew
  8. inherited from blewe
  9. prefixed as unblue — “un + blue”

Definitions

  1. Not blue.

    • […] a god in an unblue sky.
    • Soon an associational chain reaction occurs that stains blue all that has remained unblue...
    • A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue, tells us that some ink is blue. We look at the ink one way, and it looks blue.

  2. To cease being blue.

    • Blue at some distances unblues, […]
    • The boy was very hurt in the throat and his face was only now unbluing.

  3. To cause (something) to cease being blue

    To cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.

    • […] to clothe bodies surprised by bullets, to unblue hands frozen in ditches, […]
    • They look like iced teeth where a storm unblues them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unblue. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA