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Defenition of the word blue

    • Defenition of the word blue

      • The pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
      • Low in spirits.
      • Having the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
      • Making despondent or depressive.
      • the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate used as a sedative and a hypnotic
      • belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
      • characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
      • characterized by or marked with a bluish color; "a blue fox"; "the great blue whale"; "a blue spruce"
      • used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
      • wearing blue; "the painting is called `the blue boy'"; "the blue team"
      • any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
      • blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
      • any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
      • turn blue
      • the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
      • tinged with blue or purple from cold or contusion; "the children's lips are blue from cold"; "a blue bruise"
      • having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
      • causing dejection; "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"
      • low in spirits; "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"
      • suggestive of sexual impropriety; "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"
      • morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
      • the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"
      • used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
      • the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
      • having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October''s bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
      • belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the
      • any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
      • blue clothing
      • blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
      • any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
      • the sky as viewed during daylight
      • causing dejection
      • of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
      • characterized by profanity or cursing
      • filled with melancholy and despondency
      • morally rigorous and strict
      • belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
      • used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
      • suggestive of sexual impropriety

    Synonyms for the word blue

      • amobarbital sodium
      • Amytal
      • aristocratic
      • aristocratical
      • azure
      • blasphemous
      • blue air
      • blue angel
      • blue devil
      • blue sky
      • blue-blooded
      • blueing
      • blueish
      • blueness
      • bluing
      • bluish
      • cerulean
      • cobalt
      • dark
      • dark-blue
      • dejected
      • depressed
      • depressing
      • desolate
      • dingy
      • disconsolate
      • dismal
      • dispirited
      • dispiriting
      • down
      • down in the mouth
      • downcast
      • downhearted
      • drab
      • drear
      • dreary
      • fed up
      • gamey
      • gamy
      • gentle
      • gloomy
      • grim
      • indigo
      • juicy
      • light-blue
      • low
      • low-spirited
      • melancholy
      • naughty
      • navy
      • patrician
      • profane
      • puritan
      • puritanic
      • puritanical
      • racy
      • risque
      • sad
      • sapphire
      • sorry
      • spicy
      • unhappy
      • wild blue yonder
      • wretched

    Similar words in the blue

      • blue
      • blue's
      • bluebeard
      • bluebeard's
      • bluebell
      • bluebell's
      • bluebells
      • blueberries
      • blueberry
      • blueberry's
      • bluebird
      • bluebird's
      • bluebirds
      • bluebottle
      • bluebottle's
      • bluebottles
      • blued
      • bluefish
      • bluefish's
      • bluefishes
      • bluegrass
      • bluegrass's
      • bluejacket
      • bluejacket's
      • bluejackets
      • bluenose
      • bluenose's
      • bluenoses
      • blueprint
      • blueprint's
      • blueprinted
      • blueprinting
      • blueprints
      • bluer
      • bluest
      • cheerless
      • chromatic
      • colored
      • colorful
      • coloured
      • dejected
      • dirty
      • in color
      • noble
      • nonindulgent
      • northern
      • sexy
      • uncheerful

    Meronymys for the word blue

      • genus Lycaena
      • Lycaena

    Hyponyms for the word blue

      • aqua
      • aquamarine
      • azure
      • cerulean
      • cobalt blue
      • dark blue
      • greenish blue
      • lazuline
      • navy
      • navy blue
      • Payne's gray
      • peacock blue
      • powder blue
      • Prussian blue
      • purplish blue
      • royal blue
      • sapphire
      • sky-blue
      • steel blue
      • turquoise
      • ultramarine
      • Union Army

    Hypernyms for the word blue

      • amobarbital
      • apparel
      • article of clothing
      • chromatic color
      • chromatic colour
      • clothes
      • clothing
      • color
      • colour
      • discolor
      • discolour
      • dye
      • dyestuff
      • habiliment
      • lycaenid
      • lycaenid butterfly
      • organisation
      • organization
      • sky
      • spectral color
      • spectral colour
      • surname
      • vesture
      • wear
      • wearable
      • wearing apparel

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