Cerulean

 WORD OF THE DAY

cerulean / adjective / suh-ROO-lee-un

Definition
: resembling the blue of the sky"

Examples
"To our left, as we made our way along the trail, was an expansive valley enclosed by the cerulean heights of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a 550-mile expanse of the Appalachian Mountains."
— Stephanie Hill, The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, West Virginia), 3 Dec. 2021

Outside, children fly kites, the flimsy colored plastic shuddering in the gusts that blast and swell, before leaping up into cerulean skies.
— Steph Dyson, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021

Did You Know?
Cerulean comes from Latin caeruleus, which means "dark blue" and is most likely from caelum, "sky."