indigo

1. 1.

   having a color between blue and violet

   “indigo flowers”

   Similarcolored

Other forms of indigo

plural

indigoes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indigo

What does indigo mean?

indigo means "a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indigo?

indigo has 3 syllables: in-di-go. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪndəˌɡoʊ/.

What is another word for indigo?

Close synonyms include anil, indigotin, indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria. 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 indigo a common word?

indigo 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.

What rhymes with indigo?

19 words rhyme with indigo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.