Unblue vs Unclue - What's the difference?
unblue | unclue |
(rare, outside, philosophy) Not blue.
* 1992 , Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda Davies (editors), Glimmer Train Stories :
* 1997 , University of Arizona Dept. of English, Sonora Review
* 2000 , Charles Travis, Unshadowed thought: representation in thought and language :
* 2007 , Barbara Blackman, Bryony Cosgrove, Judith Wright, Portrait of a friendship :
To cease being blue.
* 2006 , Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems (ISBN 0393329100), page 26:
* 2007 , Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan (ISBN 1555846467), page 18
To cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.
* 1987 , Indiana Review , issue 10, page 24:
* 2010 , Ron Dakron, Newt (ISBN 0930773195), page 26:
As verbs the difference between unblue and unclue
is that unblue is to cease being blue while unclue is to unwind; to untangle.As an adjective unblue
is (rare|outside|philosophy) not blue.unblue
English
Adjective
(-)- a god in an unblue sky.
- Soon an associational chain reaction occurs that stains blue all that has remained unblue ...
- A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue , tells us that some ink is blue. We look at the ink one way, and it looks blue.
- Mind you, if they fly in downstairs, they are quite happy to settle for unblue mangoes.
Verb
- Blue at some distances unblues ,
- The boy was very hurt in the throat and his face was only now unbluing .
- They look like iced teeth where a storm unblues them.
