Meaning

Of a colour between blue and red; purple or crimson..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a colour between blue and red; purple or crimson.
2. Consisting of the colours blue and red individually.
3. A colour between blue and red; purple or crimson.

Example Sentences

This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red [translating Blaurot] would be intolerable.

A dye-stuff which dyes wool and silk in acid-bath in fine red-violet tints, dissolves in water with a blue-red color and a yellowish fluorescence, is sparingly soluble in alcohol, insoluble in ether and benzene, […]

Amyl alcohol extracts a blue-red color from material dyed with magenta, but extracts a yellow color from aurin, while from orchil a pink or violet color is obtained.

(V), C₁₄H₉O₃NBr₂, dark crystals with cantharides luster, blackens above 230°, does not m. 310°, sol. in NaOH with blue-red color and very faint fluorescence.

Standing and moving to under one of the lights by the nav station I could see a dark blue-red mark across the right side of my rib cage. Prodding gently I realised I had just cracked or broken one or more ribs.

When hemoglobin is unoxygenated, blood assumes a darker blue-red color. Thus, blood coming from the lungs is well oxygenated and appears red. Blood leaving the tissues has given up its oxygen and appears blue-red.

She ran her fingers down his leg, tugging up his jeans to reveal a blue-red bruise already starting to swell.

a blue-red cock (rooster)

Word Forms

• more blue-red
• most blue-red
• blue-reds

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When Should You Use Blue-red?

Use blue-red when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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