blue is the dictionary form of blue's Definition of blue
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[ adjective ] (color) having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

Examples

"October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson "a blue flame" "blue haze of tobacco smoke"

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[ adjective ] used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

Examples

"a ragged blue line"

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[ adjective ] wearing blue

Examples

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

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[ noun ] (clothing) blue clothing

Examples

"she was wearing blue"

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[ noun ] (color) the color of the clear sky in the daytime

Synonyms

blueness

Examples

"he had eyes of bright blue"

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[ noun ] any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

Examples

"the Union army was a vast blue"

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[ adjective ] low in spirits

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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[ adjective ] characterized by profanity or cursing

Synonyms

profane blasphemous

Examples

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

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[ noun ] the sky as viewed during daylight

Examples

"he shot an arrow into the blue"

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[ adjective ] low in spirits

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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[ adjective ] belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

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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[ adjective ] causing dejection

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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[ verb ] (color) turn blue
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1162
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[ 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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[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
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[ adjective ] (sexuality) suggestive of sexual impropriety

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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[ 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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[ adjective ] morally rigorous and strict

Examples

"blue laws" "the puritan work ethic" "puritanic distaste for alcohol" "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

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[ noun ] (color) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

Synonyms

blueing bluing

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[ noun ] (zoology) any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
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