blue is the dictionary form of BLUES' Definition of blue
blue has definitions from the fields of medicine,zoology,pharmacology,color,sexuality,clothing |
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[ adjective ] (color) having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
Synonyms 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 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
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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[ adjective ] characterized by profanity or cursing
Synonyms Examples "foul-mouthed and blasphemous" "blue language" "profane words" |
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[ noun ] the sky as viewed during daylight
Synonyms 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
Synonyms 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 ] morally rigorous and strict
Synonyms Examples "blue laws" "the puritan work ethic" "puritanic distaste for alcohol" "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" |
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
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