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1. | [ adjective ] (color) having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | |
Synonyms: | dark-blue bluish blue-black light-blue blueish | |
Examples: | "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson "a blue flame" "blue haze of tobacco smoke" |
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Related terms: | chromatic | |
2. | [ adjective ] used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) | |
Examples: | "a ragged blue line" |
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Related terms: | northern | |
3. | [ adjective ] wearing blue | |
Examples: | "the painting is called `the blue boy'" "the blue team" |
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4. | [ noun ] (clothing) blue clothing | |
Examples: | "she was wearing blue" |
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Related terms: | clothing | |
5. | [ noun ] (color) the color of the clear sky in the daytime | |
Synonyms: | blueness | |
Examples: | "he had eyes of bright blue" |
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Related terms: | chromatic_color greenish_blue Payne's_gray steel_blue dark_blue purplish_blue Prussian_blue ultramarine powder_blue azure | |
6. | [ noun ] any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue | |
Examples: | "the Union army was a vast blue" |
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Related terms: | organization Union_Army | |
7. | [ adjective ] low in spirits | |
Synonyms: | dispirited down downcast downhearted low low-spirited depressed | |
Examples: | "lonely and blue in a strange city" "depressed by the loss of his job" "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face" "downcast after his defeat" "feeling discouraged and downhearted" |
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Related terms: | dejected | |
8. | [ adjective ] characterized by profanity or cursing | |
Synonyms: | profane blasphemous | |
Examples: | "foul-mouthed and blasphemous" "blue language" "profane words" |
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Related terms: | dirty | |
9. | [ noun ] the sky as viewed during daylight | |
Synonyms: | blue_air wild_blue_yonder blue_sky | |
Examples: | "he shot an arrow into the blue" |
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Related terms: | sky | |
10. | [ adjective ] low in spirits | |
Synonyms: | dispirited down down_in_the_mouth downcast downhearted low low-spirited depressed | |
Examples: | "lonely and blue in a strange city" "depressed by the loss of his job" "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face" "downcast after his defeat" "feeling discouraged and downhearted" |
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Related terms: | dejected | |
11. | [ adjective ] belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | |
Synonyms: | gentle aristocratic patrician blue-blooded aristocratical | |
Examples: | "an aristocratic family" "aristocratic Bostonians" "aristocratic government" "blue blood" "the blue-blooded aristocracy" "of gentle blood" "aristocratic bearing" "patrician tastes" |
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Related terms: | noble | |
12. | [ adjective ] causing dejection | |
Synonyms: | dark depressing grim dispiriting disconsolate gloomy dismal | |
Examples: | "a blue day" "the dark days of the war" "a week of rainy depressing weather" "a disconsolate winter landscape" "the first dismal dispiriting days of November" "a dark gloomy day" "grim rainy weather" |
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Related terms: | cheerless | |
13. | [ verb ] (color) turn blue | |
Related terms: | discolor | |
14. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1162 | |
15. | [ adjective ] (color) characterized by or marked with a bluish color | |
Examples: | "a blue fox" "the great blue whale" "a blue spruce" |
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Related terms: | colored | |
16. | [ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic | |
Synonyms: | blue_angel Amytal blue_devil amobarbital_sodium | |
Related terms: | amobarbital | |
17. | [ adjective ] (sexuality) suggestive of sexual impropriety | |
Synonyms: | gamey juicy naughty racy risque spicy gamy | |
Examples: | "a blue movie" "blue jokes" "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details" "a juicy scandal" "a naughty wink" "naughty words" "racy anecdotes" "a risque story" "spicy gossip" |
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Related terms: | sexy | |
18. | [ adjective ] tinged with blue or purple from cold or contusion | |
Synonyms: | blueish bluish | |
Examples: | "the children's lips are blue from cold" "a blue bruise" |
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Related terms: | colored | |
19. | [ adjective ] morally rigorous and strict | |
Synonyms: | puritanic puritanical puritan | |
Examples: | "blue laws" "the puritan work ethic" "puritanic distaste for alcohol" "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" |
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Related terms: | nonindulgent | |
20. | [ noun ] (color) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | |
Synonyms: | blueing bluing | |
Related terms: | dye | |
21. | [ noun ] (zoology) any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae | |
Related terms: | lycaenid Lycaena | |
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