ultramarine

Other forms of ultramarine

plural

ultramarines·

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 ultramarine

What does ultramarine mean?

ultramarine means "blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ultramarine?

ultramarine has 4 syllables: ul-tra-ma-rine. The stress falls on "tra".

What is another word for ultramarine?

Close synonyms include ultramarine 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 ultramarine a common word?

ultramarine 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.