blue
adjective
1. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- October's bright blue weather
- a blue flame
- blue haze of tobacco smoke
Similar word(s): chromatic, blueish, bluish
2. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- a ragged blue line
Similar word(s): northern
3. filled with melancholy and despondency
- lonely and blue in a strange city
Similar word(s): dejected, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low
4. characterized by profanity or cursing
- blue language
Similar word(s): dirty, blasphemous, profane
5. suggestive of sexual impropriety
- a blue movie
- blue jokes
Similar word(s): sexy, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
6. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- a blue family
- blue blood
- the blue-blooded aristocracy
Similar word(s): noble, aristocratic, aristocratical, gentle, patrician
7. morally rigorous and strict
- blue laws
Similar word(s): nonindulgent, strict, puritanic, puritanical
8. causing depression
- a blue day
Similar word(s): cheerless, depressing, uncheerful, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry
Sentences with blue as an adjective:
- the deep blue sea
- The candle burns blue.
- The air was blue with oaths. a blue movie
- I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
- Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
- blue and sour religionists; blue laws
noun
1. blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- he had eyes of bright blue
Similar word(s): blueness
Definition categories: attribute
2. blue clothing
- she was wearing blue
- The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
Definition categories: man–made, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable
3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- the Union army was a vast blue
Definition categories: group, organisation, organization
4. the sky as viewed during daylight
- he shot an arrow into the blue
Definition categories: object, sky
5. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Similar word(s): blueing, bluing
Definition categories: substance, dye, dyestuff
6. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
Definition categories: man–made, amobarbital
7. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Definition categories: animal, lycaenid
Sentences with blue as a noun:
- blue colour:
- The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
- His request for leave came out of the blue.