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blue

/bl/u/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

  1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, <i>blue</i> sea; as <i>blue</i> as a sapphire; <i>blue</i> violets.

    adjective

    Source: webster1913

noun

  1. blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

    noun.attribute

    Examples
    He had eyes of bright blue.
    Synonyms blueness

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  2. blue clothing

    noun.artifact

    Examples
    She was wearing blue.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

    noun.group

    Examples
    The Union army was a vast blue.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  4. the sky as viewed during daylight

    noun.object

    Examples
    He shot an arrow into the blue.
    Synonyms blue air blue sky wild blue yonder

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  5. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

    noun.substance

    Synonyms blueing bluing

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  6. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

    noun.artifact

    Synonyms amobarbital sodium amytal blue angel blue devil

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  7. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

    noun.animal

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  8. One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

    noun

    Source: webster1913

adjective satellite

  1. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

    adj.all

    Examples
    October's bright blue weather.
    A blue flame.
    Blue haze of tobacco smoke.
    Synonyms blueish bluish

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  2. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

    adj.all

    Examples
    A ragged blue line.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  3. filled with melancholy and despondency

    adj.all

    Examples
    Lonely and blue in a strange city.
    Synonyms depressed dispirited down down in the mouth downcast downhearted gloomy grim low low-spirited

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  4. characterized by profanity or cursing

    adj.all

    Examples
    Blue language.
    Synonyms blasphemous profane

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  5. suggestive of sexual impropriety

    adj.all

    Examples
    A blue movie.
    Blue jokes.
    Synonyms gamey gamy juicy naughty racy risque spicy

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  6. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

    adj.all

    Examples
    A blue family.
    Blue blood.
    The blue-blooded aristocracy.
    Synonyms aristocratic aristocratical blue-blooded gentle patrician

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  7. morally rigorous and strict

    adj.all

    Synonyms puritanic puritanical

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  8. causing dejection

    adj.all

    Examples
    A blue day.
    Synonyms dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy grim sorry

    Source: WordNet 3.0

verb

  1. turn blue

    verb.change

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  2. To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

    verb

    Source: webster1913

Nearby words

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