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Words with a similar base: blue, blue-blooded, blue_air, blue_angel, blue_devil, blue_sky, blueing, blueish, blueness, wild_blue_yonder

'blue'

[blue.n.01] as in: blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

Examples:
he had eyes of bright blue

'blue'

[blue.n.02] as in: blue clothing

Examples:
she was wearing blue

'blue'

[blue.n.03] as in: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

Examples:
the Union army was a vast blue

'blue'

[blue_sky.n.01] as in: the sky as viewed during daylight

Examples:
he shot an arrow into the blue

'blue'

[bluing.n.01] as in: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

'blue'

[amobarbital_sodium.n.01] as in: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

'blue'

[blue.n.07] as in: any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

'blue'

[blue.v.01] as in: turn blue

'blue'

[blue.s.01] as in: of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; - Helen Hunt Jackson

Examples:
October's bright blue weather
a blue flame
blue haze of tobacco smoke

'blue'

[blue.s.02] as in: used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

Examples:
a ragged blue line

'blue'

[gloomy.s.02] as in: filled with melancholy and despondency

Examples:
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

'blue'

[blasphemous.s.02] as in: characterized by profanity or cursing

Examples:
foul-mouthed and blasphemous
blue language
profane words

'blue'

[blue.s.05] as in: suggestive of sexual impropriety

Examples:
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

'blue'

[aristocratic.s.01] as in: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

Examples:
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

'blue'

[blue.s.07] as in: morally rigorous and strict

Examples:
the puritan work ethic
puritanic distaste for alcohol
she was anything but puritanical in her behavior

'blue'

[blue.s.08] as in: causing dejection

Examples:
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

Origins

					blue (English)
└── blewe (Middle English (1100-1500))