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Among other things, blue is a color and a dreary mood. If the blue sky and ocean have turned gray and stormy, you might be blue because your day at the beach is ruined.

Whether it's a primary color or a saddened mood, blue is used often as an adjective for people and things. Blue is a mix of green and purple shades, and it's the favorite color of many. The color blue might bring thoughts of first-place blue ribbons or police officers in blue uniforms, and it colors many flags of the world. Blue is everywhere, but there isn't a lot of blue food unless it's colored with dye. Even blueberries are mostly purple.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: blue

1
 adjnv
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
turn blue
2
 nadj
blue clothing
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
3
 adj
filled with melancholy and despondency
4
 adj
characterized by profanity or cursing
5
 adj
belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
6
 adj
morally rigorous and strict
7
 n
the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
8
 n
any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
9
 n
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: blue
1

adj 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”
“blue haze of tobacco smoke”
Synonyms:
blueish, bluish
chromatic
being or having or characterized by hue

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

“he had eyes of bright blue”
Synonyms:
blueness
Types:
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azure, cerulean, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue
a light shade of blue
powder blue
a pale blue color with grey in it
steel blue
a greyish blue color
Prussian blue
a dark greenish-blue color
dark blue, navy, navy blue
a dark shade of blue
aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise
a shade of blue tinged with green
purplish blue, royal blue
a shade of blue tinged with purple
ultramarine
a vivid blue to purple-blue color
Type of:
chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
a color that has hue

n the sky as viewed during daylight

“he shot an arrow into the blue”
Synonyms:
blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder
Type of:
sky
the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

v turn blue

Type of:
color, colour, discolor, discolour
change color, often in an undesired manner
2

n blue clothing

“she was wearing blue”
Type of:
article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable
a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

n any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

“the Union army was a vast blue”
Types:
Union Army
the northern army during the American Civil War
Type of:
organisation, organization
a group of people who work together

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

“a ragged blue line”
Synonyms
northern
in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
3

adj filled with melancholy and despondency

“lonely and blue in a strange city”
Synonyms:
depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited
dejected
affected or marked by low spirits

adj causing dejection

“a blue day”
Synonyms:
dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry
cheerless, depressing, uncheerful
causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
4

adj characterized by profanity or cursing

“blue language”
Synonyms:
blasphemous, profane
dirty
(of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency

adj suggestive of sexual impropriety

“a blue movie”
“blue jokes”
Synonyms:
gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
sexy
marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
5

adj belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

“a blue family”
“blue blood”
“the blue-blooded aristocracy”
Synonyms:
aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
noble
of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times
6

adj morally rigorous and strict

Synonyms:
puritanic, puritanical
nonindulgent, strict
characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
7

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

Synonyms:
Amytal, amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil
Type of:
amobarbital
a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant
8

n any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

Type of:
lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly
any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
9

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

Synonyms:
blueing, bluing
Type of:
dye, dyestuff
a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
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