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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

blue-skies en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Unrealistic or impractical.
  2. (not-comparable) Of no immediate practical application.
    • blue-skies research
    • These options can be presented either as 'blue skies', i.e. no constraints are imposed by the existing systems, or as 'pragmatic reality', i.e. building on the existing systems. It is better to take a blue skies approach to strategic information […] 1992, Gary Heap, Alfie Windsor, A structured approach to systems development, McGraw-Hill:

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Antonyms

real-world

Coordinates

greenfield

Relateds

blue-sky thinking

Synonyms

theoretical