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English adjective: blue | |||
| 1. | blue of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | ||
| Samples | October's bright blue weather. A blue flame. Blue haze of tobacco smoke. | ||
| Synonyms | blueish, bluish | ||
| Similar | chromatic | ||
| Antonyms | achromatic, neutral | ||
| 2. | blue used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) | ||
| Samples | A ragged blue line. | ||
| Similar | northern | ||
| Antonyms | southern | ||
| 3. | blue filled with melancholy and despondency | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited | ||
| Similar | dejected | ||
| Antonyms | elated | ||
| 4. | blue characterized by profanity or cursing | ||
| Samples | Foul-mouthed and blasphemous. Blue language. Profane words. | ||
| Synonyms | blasphemous, profane | ||
| Similar | dirty | ||
| Antonyms | unobjectionable, clean | ||
| 5. | blue suggestive of sexual impropriety | ||
| Samples | 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 | gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy | ||
| Similar | sexy | ||
| Antonyms | unsexy | ||
| 6. | blue belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Similar | noble | ||
| Antonyms | lowborn | ||
| 7. | blue morally rigorous and strict | ||
| Samples | The puritan work ethic. Puritanic distaste for alcohol. She was anything but puritanical in her behavior. | ||
| Synonyms | puritanic, puritanical | ||
| Similar | nonindulgent, strict | ||
| Antonyms | indulgent | ||
| 8. | blue causing dejection | ||
| Samples | 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, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry | ||
| Similar | cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | ||
| Antonyms | cheerful | ||
English noun: blue | |||
| 1. | blue (attribute) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | ||
| Samples | He had eyes of bright blue. | ||
| Synonyms | blueness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aqua, aquamarine, azure, cerulean, cobalt blue, dark blue, greenish blue, lazuline, navy, navy blue, peacock blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, purplish blue, royal blue, sapphire, sky-blue, steel blue, turquoise, ultramarine | ||
| 2. | blue (artifact) blue clothing | ||
| Samples | She was wearing blue. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable | ||
| 3. | blue (group) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue | ||
| Samples | The Union army was a vast blue. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organisation, organization | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Union Army | ||
| 4. | blue (object) the sky as viewed during daylight | ||
| Samples | He shot an arrow into the blue. | ||
| Synonyms | blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sky | ||
| 5. | blue (substance) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | ||
| Synonyms | blueing, bluing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | dye, dyestuff | ||
| 6. | blue (artifact) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic | ||
| Synonyms | amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue angel, blue devil | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | amobarbital | ||
| 7. | blue (animal) any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly | ||
| Member meronym | genus Lycaena, Lycaena | ||
English verb: blue | |||
| 1. | blue (change) turn blue | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | color, colour, discolor, discolour | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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