The Collaborative International Dictionary
dark-blue \dark-blue\ adj. of a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.
Syn: blue, bluish, light-blue, cerulean.
WordNet
adj. having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: blue, bluish, blueish, light-blue, blue-black]
Usage examples of "dark-blue".
His cropped, thinning brown hair was covered by a dark-blue woolen hat, and the old Soviet Army body armor he wore under his down jacket made him look like the Michelin man.
Not present at that lunch in the past were the white Egyptian cotton shirt from Turnbull and Asser, the dark-blue silk tie, the white crepe de Chine monogrammed handkerchief, or the forty-five-year-old double-breasted pin-stripe suit, teamed with a pair of black brogues that I had bought from Shoe Express in Northampton the year before for nineteen pounds and ninety-nine pence.
Once inside the main building they were met by a wiry man in a dark-blue plaid wool shirt, jeans, and chukka boots.
He goes accordingly to the sister, that is to Boand, till he was in Mag Breg, and he carried away fifty dark-blue cloaks, and each of them was like the back of a black chafer,[1] and four black-grey, rings on each cloak, and a brooch of red gold on each cloak, and pale white tunics with loop-animals of gold around them.
His rolls of flesh, that could scarcely be contained by a dark-blue bell tent of a funsuit, sagged and flowed and sweated into a monster of a chair, a creation of chrome and black leather that contained him like a vat.
There was a dark-blue stain under one eye and a lump on the forehead.
Harley met Hardcastle at the trunk of the can-he was wisely reaching for the heavy, dark-blue bulletproof vests he found.
With her other hand, she reached for the butter knife, and with it began to score a deep pattern of marks on the coarse weave of the dark-blue table-cloth.
We passed a man in a dark-blue army overcoat, wearing a blue forage cap—.
He was wearing glasses—reasonably unusual in the developed world now that laser keratotomy had been perfected—and a dark-blue sweatshirt.
Then he put on his dark-blue raincoat and went down into the street and along to the Odeons Platz.
Her red hair spilled over the rose-pink pillow case, the whole of the dark-blue duvet was wrapped round her hips, and her breasts fell sideways on to a pale-green bottom sheet.
He had to wear the dark-blue serge shorts, the white shirt, the unchewed school tie.
Numbly, he shook out the dark-blue trousers as though he performed duties of batman every day.
Beneath it he is soaking wet, his heart beating hard, the dark-blue nylon absorbing sunlight like a sponge.