cobalt blue

Questions about cobalt blue

What does cobalt blue mean?

cobalt blue means "a shade of blue tinged with green". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cobalt blue?

Close synonyms include greenish blue, aqua, aquamarine, turquoise, peacock blue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cobalt blue a common word?

cobalt blue is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.