blue

adjective

  1. 1

    causing dejection

    a blue day

    the dark days of the war

  2. 2

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

    October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson

    a blue flame

  3. 3

    characterized by profanity or cursing

    foul-mouthed and blasphemous

    blue language

  4. 4

    filled with melancholy and despondency

    gloomy at the thought of what he had to face

    gloomy predictions

noun

  1. 1

    any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    blue clothing

    she was wearing blue

  4. 4

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

    he had eyes of bright blue

  5. 5

    any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

    the Union army was a vast blue

  6. 6

    the sky as viewed during daylight

    he shot an arrow into the blue

  7. 7

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

verb

  1. 1

    turn blue

Synonyms

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