blue-sky

1. 1.

   without immediate commercial value

   “the company cannot afford to do blue-sky research”

   Similarnoncommercial

Questions about blue-sky

What does blue-sky mean?

blue-sky means "without immediate commercial value".

How many syllables are in blue-sky?

blue-sky has 2 syllables and divides as blue--sky under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is blue-sky a common word?

blue-sky is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.