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unblue
unblue
English
Adjective
unblue (not comparable)
- (rare outside philosophy) Not blue.
- 1992, Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda Davies (editors), Glimmer Train Stories:
- […] a god in an unblue sky.
- 1997, University of Arizona Dept. of English, Sonora Review
- Soon an associational chain reaction occurs that stains blue all that has remained unblue...
- 2000, Charles Travis, Unshadowed thought: representation in thought and language:
- 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.
- 2007, Barbara Blackman, Bryony Cosgrove, Judith Wright, Portrait of a friendship:
- Mind you, if they fly in downstairs, they are quite happy to settle for unblue mangoes.
- 1992, Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda Davies (editors), Glimmer Train Stories:
Verb
unblue (third-person singular simple present unblues, present participle unblueing or unbluing, simple past and past participle unblued)
- (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic) To cease being blue.
- 2006, Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems (ISBN 0393329100), page 26:
- Blue at some distances unblues, […]
- 2007, Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan (ISBN 1555846467), page 18
- The boy was very hurt in the throat and his face was only now unbluing.
- 2006, Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems (ISBN 0393329100), page 26:
- (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic) To cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.
- 1987, Indiana Review, issue 10, page 24:
- […] to clothe bodies surprised by bullets, to unblue hands frozen in ditches, […]
- 2010, Ron Dakron, Newt (ISBN 0930773195), page 26:
- They look like iced teeth where a storm unblues them.
- 1987, Indiana Review, issue 10, page 24: