Blue - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |bluː|  American pronunciation of the word blue
Brit.  |bluː|  British pronunciation of the word blue

noun

- 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 (syn: blueing, bluing)
- 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

verb

- turn blue

adjective

- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky (syn: bluish)
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 (syn: depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited)
lonely and blue in a strange city
- characterized by profanity or cursing (syn: blasphemous, profane)
blue language
- suggestive of sexual impropriety (syn: gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy)
a blue movie
blue jokes
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy (syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, gentle, patrician)
a blue family
blue blood
the blue-blooded aristocracy
- morally rigorous and strict (syn: puritanic, puritanical)
blue laws
- causing dejection (syn: dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry)
a blue day

Extra examples

...shocked at the blue banter she heard on that satellite-radio talk show...

...a cold, dreary day always leaves me blue...

Her favorite color is blue.

They sailed off into the blue.

Charley replied that neither had he any money at home. "That's blue," said the man.

All at once, a cloud has blanched the blue.

The stars came out in the blue overhead.

The articles of dress must be well starched, blued, and rough dried.

This top coat would blue it.

I've been feeling kind of blue.

She nearly always dresses in blue.

So Papa Eccles had the money? - And blued it!

October's bright blue weather

She has a red bike, and I have a blue one.

Why is the sky blue?

Word forms

noun
singular: blue
plural: blues
adjective
comparative: bluer
superlative: bluest
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