If I find a few words I don’t know I look them up in Jisho, and I found a sentence that doesn’t exactly make sense (at least to me). The sentence was: みんな青いです. I know the words blue and is, but I didn’t know みんな, so I looked it up, and apparently, it means everyone, so it roughly translates to “Everyone is blue?” Does it mean everyone is pale or something? Maybe, I’m just making a super obvious mistake, who knows?
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青い has a variety of meanings. Without more surrounding context, we wouldn’t be able to tell.
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I apologize, it was a picture of blue mice and blanket, with some other objects. Can everyone sometimes mean everything? Or, maybe it’s almost personification?
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Oh, that’s pretty straightforward. みんな (all the mice and other things) 青いです (are blue).
Was it just that you thought that みんな only refers to people?
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Yes, I assumed that I was just wrong, thanks for clarifying though! I know this probably seems like a pointless question, but yeah; I might delete this thread because it seems a little pointless…
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Everyone has to learn the meaning some time! I’m sure other beginners have the same question, so it’s not pointless.
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Not pointless, I read that book a couple of years back and had also thought that みんな only referred to people until reading that sentence. 
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Definitely not pointless - I learned a new thing today because of this!! I’m just not as brave as you to ask the question. Thank you 
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