Thesaurus: ultramarine

Related headwords

Definitions

1. a. Situated or being beyond the sea.
2. n. A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively.
3. adj. of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color
4. n. blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli
5. n. a vivid blue to blue">purple-blue color
6. Situated or being beyond the sea. Burke. A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. -- Ultramarine ash or ashes (Paint.), a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after the ultramarine has been extracted. It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray that produced by the mixture of more positive colors. Fairholt.
7. Situated or being beyond the sea. Burke.
8. j:83/n:17 n. blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli n. a vivid blue to purple-blue color s. of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color