Definition of 'blue'
Noun
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
Synonyms: blueness - blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
- the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"
Synonyms: blue sky blue air wild blue yonder - used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Synonyms: bluing blueing - the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
Synonyms: amobarbital sodium blue angel blue devil Amytal - any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Verb
- turn blue
Adjective
- 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: bluish blueish - used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
- 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"
Synonyms: depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted down in the mouth low low-spirited - characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
Synonyms: blasphemous profane - 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"
Synonyms: gamy gamey juicy naughty racy risque spicy - 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"
Synonyms: aristocratic aristocratical blue-blooded gentle patrician - morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
Synonyms: puritan puritanic puritanical - 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"
Synonyms: dark depressing dingy disconsolate dismal dispiriting gloomy grim sorry drab drear dreary
