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
  • used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
  • 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"

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"
  • morally rigorous and strict
    "the puritan work ethic"
    "puritanic distaste for alcohol"
    "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
  • 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"
    - blue blooded
  • 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"
  • characterized by profanity or cursing
    "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"
    "blue language"
    "profane words"
  • 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"
    - down in the mouth - 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"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

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Unscramble blue

7 unscramble word found using the letters blue.

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