blue
Other forms: blues; bluer; bluest; blued; bluing; blueing; bluely
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.
Definitions of blue
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of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
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blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime“he had eyes of bright blue”
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synonyms:
blueness
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azure, cerulean, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue
a light shade of blue
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powder blue
a pale blue color with grey in it
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steel blue
a greyish blue color
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Prussian blue
a dark greenish-blue color
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dark blue, navy, navy blue
a dark shade of blue
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aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise
a shade of blue tinged with green
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purplish blue, royal blue
a shade of blue tinged with purple
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ultramarine
a vivid blue to purple-blue color
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type of:
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chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
a color that has hue
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the sky as viewed during daylight“he shot an arrow into the blue”
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synonyms:
blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder
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type of:
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sky
the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
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sky
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turn blue
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blue clothing“she was wearing blue”
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type of:
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article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable
a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
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article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable
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any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue“the Union army was a vast blue”
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Union Army
the northern army during the American Civil War
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type of:
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organisation, organization
a group of people who work together
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Union Army
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used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)“a ragged blue line”
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northern
in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
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northern
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filled with melancholy and despondency“lonely and blue in a strange city”
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synonyms:
depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited
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dejected
affected or marked by low spirits
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dejected
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causing dejection“a blue day”
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cheerless, depressing, uncheerful
causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
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cheerless, depressing, uncheerful
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characterized by profanity or cursing“blue language”
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synonyms:
blasphemous, profane
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dirty
(of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
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dirty
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suggestive of sexual impropriety
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belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy“a blue family”“blue blood”“the blue-blooded aristocracy”
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synonyms:
aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
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noble
of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times
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noble
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morally rigorous and strict
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synonyms:
puritanic, puritanical
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nonindulgent, strict
characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
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nonindulgent, strict
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the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
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synonyms:
Amytal, amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil
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type of:
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amobarbital
a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant
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amobarbital
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any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
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type of:
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lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly
any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
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lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly
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used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Pronunciation
US
/blu/
UK
/blu/
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