blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; he had eyes of bright blue
[ Syn: 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
[ Syn: blue sky , blue air , wild blue yonder ]
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
[ Syn: amobarbital sodium , blue angel , blue devil , amytal ]
any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
blue (n.)
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; Octobers bright blue weather- Helen Hunt Jackson; a blue flame; blue haze of tobacco smoke
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); a ragged blue line'
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
[ Syn: gloomy , grim , 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
[ Syn: 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
[ Syn: 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
[ Syn: aristocratic , aristocratical , blue-blooded , gentle , patrician ]
morally rigorous and strict; the puritan work ethic; puritanic distaste for alcohol; she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
[ Syn: 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
[ Syn: dark , dingy , disconsolate , dismal , gloomy , grim , sorry , drab , drear , dreary ]
blue (adj.)
turn blue