| blue | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. blue, blueness | blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime.; "he had eyes of bright blue" |
| ~ chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | a color that has hue. |
| ~ azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue, sapphire | a light shade of blue. |
| ~ powder blue | a pale blue color with grey in it. |
| ~ steel blue | a greyish blue color. |
| ~ prussian blue | a dark greenish-blue color. |
| ~ dark blue, navy blue, navy | a dark shade of blue. |
| ~ aqua, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, aquamarine, turquoise | a shade of blue tinged with green. |
| ~ purplish blue, royal blue | a shade of blue tinged with purple. |
| ~ ultramarine | a vivid blue to purple-blue color. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. blue | blue clothing.; "she was wearing blue" |
| ~ article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear | a covering designed to be worn on a person's body. |
| n. (group) | 3. blue | any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue.; "the Union army was a vast blue" |
| ~ organization, organisation | a group of people who work together. |
| ~ union army | the northern army during the American Civil War. |
| n. (object) | 4. blue, blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder | the sky as viewed during daylight.; "he shot an arrow into the blue" |
| ~ sky | the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth. |
| n. (substance) | 5. blue, blueing, bluing | used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge. |
| ~ dye, dyestuff | a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. amobarbital sodium, amytal, blue, blue angel, blue devil | the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic. |
| ~ amobarbital | a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant. |
| n. (animal) | 7. blue | any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. |
| ~ lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly | any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. |
| ~ genus lycaena, lycaena | type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper. |
| v. (change) | 8. blue | turn blue. |
| ~ discolour, discolor, color, colour | change color, often in an undesired manner.; "The shirts discolored" |
| adj. | 9. blue, blueish, bluish | of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.; "October's bright blue weather"; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" |
| ~ chromatic | being or having or characterized by hue. |
| adj. | 10. blue | used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms).; "a ragged blue line" |
| ~ northern | in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line.; "Northern liberals"; "northern industry"; "northern cities" |
| adj. | 11. blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited | 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" |
| ~ dejected | affected or marked by low spirits.; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful" |
| adj. | 12. blasphemous, blue, profane | characterized by profanity or cursing.; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" |
| ~ dirty | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency.; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" |
| adj. | 13. blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy | 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" |
| ~ sexy | marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest.; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes" |
| adj. | 14. aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician | 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" |
| ~ noble | of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times.; "of noble birth" |
| adj. | 15. blue, puritanic, puritanical | morally rigorous and strict.; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" |
| ~ nonindulgent, strict | characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint. |
| adj. | 16. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry | 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" |
| ~ cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
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