blue
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"

Related terms: chromatic
2. [ adjective ] used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
Examples:

"a ragged blue line"

Related terms: northern
3. [ adjective ] wearing blue
Examples:

"the painting is called `the blue boy'" "the blue team"

4. [ noun ] (clothing) blue clothing
Examples:

"she was wearing blue"

Related terms: clothing
5. [ noun ] (color) the color of the clear sky in the daytime
Synonyms: blueness
Examples:

"he had eyes of bright blue"

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"

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"

Related terms: dejected
8. [ adjective ] characterized by profanity or cursing
Synonyms: profane blasphemous
Examples:

"foul-mouthed and blasphemous" "blue language" "profane words"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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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