Definition of Blue

Noun

• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
  
• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate
  used as a sedative and a hypnotic
  - amobarbital sodium - blue angel - blue devil amytal
• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
  bluing blueing
• the sky as viewed during daylight
  "he shot an arrow into the blue"
  - blue sky - blue air - wild blue yonder
• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
  "the Union army was a vast blue"
  
• blue clothing
  "she was wearing blue"
  
• blue color or pigment
  resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
  "he had eyes of bright blue"
  blueness

Verb

• turn blue
  

Adjective

• 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"
  dark dingy disconsolate dismal gloomy grim sorry drab drear dreary
• morally rigorous and strict
  "the puritan work ethic"
  "puritanic distaste for alcohol"
  "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
  puritanic puritanical
• 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"
  aristocratic aristocratical - blue blooded gentle patrician
• 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"
  gamy gamey juicy naughty racy risque spicy
• characterized by profanity or cursing
  "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"
  "blue language"
  "profane words"
  blasphemous profane
• filled with melancholy and despondency
  "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
  "gloomy predictions"
  "a gloomy silence"
  "took a grim view of the economy"
  "the darkening mood"
  "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"
  gloomy grim depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted - down in the mouth low - low spirited
• used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
  "a ragged blue line"
  
• 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"
  bluish blueish

Word games points for the Blue

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Unscramble blue

7 unscramble word found using the letters blue.

be, bel, blue, el, leu, lube, ule,