LAZULI Synonyms

• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

• blue clothing

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

• the sky as viewed during daylight

• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

• of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

• used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• characterized by profanity or cursing

• suggestive of sexual impropriety

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• morally rigorous and strict

• causing dejection

• turn blue

• a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition

• a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically

• deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye

• a blue-violet color

• having a color between blue and violet

• a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone

• a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

• a light shade of blue

• of something having the color of a blue sapphire

• blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli

• a vivid blue to purple-blue color

• of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color

• Lapis lazuli.

• A mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the Old Masters. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite group of silicate minerals. Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with sulphur, Na4-5Al3Si3O12S.

• an azure blue semiprecious stone