blue

Meanings

• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
  • "he had eyes of bright blue"
• 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"
• 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
• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
• turn blue
• of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; - Helen Hunt Jackson
  • "October's bright blue weather"
  • "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
  • "lonely and blue in a strange city"
• characterized by profanity or cursing
  • "blue language"
• suggestive of sexual impropriety
  • "a blue movie"
  • "blue jokes"
• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
  • "a blue family"
  • "blue blood"
  • "the blue-blooded aristocracy"
• morally rigorous and strict
• causing dejection
  • "a blue day"

Synonyms

amobarbital sodium, Amytal, aristocratic, aristocratical, blasphemous, blue air, blue angel, blue devil, blue sky, blue-blooded, blueing, blueish, blueness, bluing, bluish, dark, depressed, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, dreary, gamey, gamy, gentle, gloomy, grim, juicy, low, low-spirited, naughty, patrician, profane, puritanic, puritanical, racy, risque, sorry, spicy, wild blue yonder