Explore Indigo through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like colored or violet. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Indigo in a sentence
Indigo meaning
- A purplish-blue color.
- A greenish dark blue color; the color of indigo dye.
- A blue-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
Synonyms of Indigo
Indigo vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Indigo
- The main meaning on this page is: A purplish-blue color. | A greenish dark blue color; the color of indigo dye. | A blue-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
- Useful related words include: colored, violet, bush, shrub.
- Possible Dutch translations are: indigo.
- In the example corpus, indigo often appears in combinations such as: indigo and, the indigo, of indigo.
Context around Indigo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 8 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Indigo
- In this selection, "indigo" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pigment, color, electric, dye, white and web stand out and add context to how "indigo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after the indigo dye derived and and pigment indigo. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "indigo" sits close to words such as amelia, ascertain and bieber, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with indigo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Reduction converts indigo into "white indigo" ( leuco -indigo). (8 words)
Since 2004, freeze-dried indigo, or instant indigo, has become available. (11 words)
The related blue grosbeak is, ironically, more indigo than the indigo bunting. (12 words)
Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur - effets et symboliques (pg. 28) The efforts to block indigo were in vain; the quality of indigo blue was too high and the price too low for pastel made from woad to compete. (39 words)
Charitable activities In 2004, Indigo started the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, a program which helps provide new books and learning materials to high-needs elementary schools, enhancing the literacy and self-esteem of students. (35 words)
Another war of the blues took place at the end of the 19th century, between indigo and synthetic indigo, discovered in 1868 by the German chemist Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Developments in dyeing technology Indigo white (leuco-indigo) Yarn dyed with indigo dye Indigo white Indigo is a challenging dye because it is not soluble in water.
The web color blue violet or deep indigo is a tone of indigo brighter than pigment indigo, but not as bright as electric indigo.
Deep indigo (web color blue-violet) infobox At right is displayed the web color 'blue-violet', a color intermediate in brightness between electric indigo and pigment indigo.
Electric indigo infobox The color 'electric indigo' is much brighter than the pigment indigo reproduced below.
Light indigo (web color indigo) represents the way the color indigo was always reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s.
Reduction converts indigo into "white indigo" ( leuco -indigo).
The color of indigo dye is a different color from either spectrum indigo or pigment indigo.
The color pigment indigo is equivalent to the web color indigo and approximates the color indigo that is usually reproduced in pigments and colored pencils.
Another war of the blues took place at the end of the 19th century, between indigo and synthetic indigo, discovered in 1868 by the German chemist Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer.
Charitable activities In 2004, Indigo started the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, a program which helps provide new books and learning materials to high-needs elementary schools, enhancing the literacy and self-esteem of students.
Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur - effets et symboliques (pg. 28) The efforts to block indigo were in vain; the quality of indigo blue was too high and the price too low for pastel made from woad to compete.
If this is where Newton meant indigo to lie, most individuals would have difficulty distinguishing indigo from its neighbors.
In culture Business * Indigo Books and Music uses an indigo logo and has sometimes referred to the color as "blue" in advertising.
Instead of using an indigo solution directly, the process involved printing the insoluble form of indigo onto the fabric.
Man wearing an indigo-dyed tagelmust Indigo was the foundation of centuries-old textile traditions throughout West Africa.
Schliemann next cornered the market in indigo dye and then went into the indigo business itself, turning a good profit.
Since 2004, freeze-dried indigo, or instant indigo, has become available.
Some species of such bacteria generate hydrogen as a metabolic product, which convert insoluble indigo into soluble indigo white.
The color indigo is named after the indigo dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species.
The related blue grosbeak is, ironically, more indigo than the indigo bunting.
Common combinations with indigo
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- indigo and 19×
- the indigo 19×
- of indigo 16×
- and indigo 10×
- indigo girls 9×
- indigo is 7×
- an indigo 7×
- indigo airlines 7×
- indigo to 6×
- indigo has 6×