Lexic.us

Definition of Ultramarine

1. Adjective. Of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color.

2. Noun. Blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli.

3. Noun. A vivid blue to purple-blue color.

Definition of Ultramarine

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.

Definition of Ultramarine

1. Noun. a brilliant blue pigment that is either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically. ¹

2. Noun. (colour) a brilliant pure dark blue or slightly purplish colour. ¹

3. Adjective. having a brilliant blue colour. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ultramarine

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Medical Definition of Ultramarine

1. 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, coloured 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, 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 colours. Fairholt. Origin: Cf. Sp. Ultramarino. So called because the lapis lazuli was originally brought from beyond the sea, from Asia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ultramarine

ultralow ultraloyalist ultraloyalists ultralucid ultraluminous ultraluxurious ultraluxury ultramacho ultramafic ultramagnetic

ultramarathon ultramarathoner ultramarathoners ultramarathoning ultramarathons ultramarine (current term) ultramarine blue ultramarines ultramasculine ultramasculinity

ultrametamorphic ultrametamorphosis ultrametric ultrametricity ultramicro ultramicroelectrode ultramicroelectrodes ultramicrofiche ultramicrofiches

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