powdery-blue

Thân thiện

The artist mixes a powdery-blue pigment on her palette.

Definition

Adjective 1. Of a moderate to pale blue or purplish blue: Describes a specific, soft shade of blue that is light, muted, and may have a slight hint of purple or a dusty, chalky quality reminiscent of powder.

Usage

This adjective is used to describe the color of objects, typically in visual or descriptive contexts. It is a compound adjective, often hyphenated. * The artist mixed white with a touch of cobalt to achieve a powdery-blue hue for the sky. * She painted her bedroom walls in a soothing, powdery-blue shade. * The morning glory flowers were a delicate powdery-blue.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used metaphorically to describe something that evokes the soft, gentle, or ethereal quality of this color.
  • The distant mountains appeared in a powdery-blue haze at dawn.

Variants and Related Words

• Powdery (Adjective): Resembling or consisting of fine powder; easily crumbling into powder.
• Blue (Adjective/Noun): The color between green and violet in the spectrum; a primary color.

Synonyms

• Pale blue
• Powder blue (Note: This is a common, often unhyphenated noun phrase for a similar color.)
• Sky blue (though typically brighter and less muted)
• Periwinkle (a specific pale purplish-blue color)

Antonyms

• Vibrant blue
• Royal blue
• Navy blue
• Dark blue

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of a moderate to pale blue or purplish blue

Từ đồng nghĩa

• powder blue