ultramarine
Americanadjective
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of the color ultramarine.
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beyond the sea.
noun
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a blue pigment consisting of powdered lapis lazuli.
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a similar artificial blue pigment.
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any of various other pigments.
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a deep-blue color.
noun
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a blue pigment consisting of sodium and aluminium silicates and some sodium sulphide, obtained by powdering natural lapis lazuli or made synthetically: used in paints, printing ink, plastics, etc
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a vivid blue colour
adjective
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of the colour ultramarine
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from across the seas
Etymology
Origin of ultramarine
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin ultrāmarīnus, equivalent to Latin ultrā ultra- + marīnus marine
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Example Sentences
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I imagined a vitrine of the pigments used to achieve those “Gainsborough blues”—indigo, Prussian blue, ultramarine, azurite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
The colors are a reddish black, a Renaissance ultramarine blue and a blackish burgundy that Zumthor hoped would conjure a cave-like dimness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
Standen tells BBC Newsbeat his early recording sessions involved negotiating with Games Workshop representatives to inject depth and emotion into his traditionally stoic ultramarine character.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025
She dug a narrow, shallow, 41-foot-long trench in the ground, running perpendicular to the Pacific Ocean, and poured powdered ultramarine pigment into it.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
He asks Theo to send him some tubes of paint before he leaves Paris: three of zinc white, four of Veronese green, and a tube each of cobalt, ultramarine, emerald green, and orange lead.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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