blue
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Definition
Noun:
- A color: The color of the clear sky on a sunny day; the color between green and violet in the visible spectrum.
- The sky or the sea: Used poetically or descriptively to refer to the sky or a large body of water.
- A feeling of sadness: A state of melancholy or depression (often used with 'the').
- A person or team: A sports player or team representing a university (especially Oxford or Cambridge) or wearing blue uniforms.
- A type of butterfly: Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae, often with blue coloring on their wings.
- A chemical substance: A blue dye, pigment, or a specific chemical compound like a barbiturate sedative.
Adjective:
- Of the color blue: Having the hue of a clear sky.
- Sad, melancholy: Feeling or showing unhappiness or depression.
- Risqué, indecent: Referring to jokes, language, or material that is sexually suggestive or profane.
- Aristocratic, noble: Belonging to or characteristic of high social rank (from the term 'blue blood').
- Rigidly moral, puritanical: Characterized by strict moral codes, especially regarding pleasure.
- Relating to a political faction: Pertaining to a group whose identifying color is blue, such as the Union (Northern) forces in the American Civil War.
Verb:
- To make or become blue: To give a blue color to something, or to turn the color blue.
Usage Examples
- Noun (Color):
- She painted her room a bright blue.
- He had eyes of a deep, vivid blue.
- Noun (Sky/Sea):
- The balloon disappeared into the blue.
- He loves sailing on the blue.
- Noun (Sadness):
- She's been suffering from the blues lately.
- Listening to that music gives me the blues.
- Adjective (Color):
- They live in a blue house with a white door.
- The blue flame indicates complete combustion.
- Adjective (Sad):
- He felt blue after his friend moved away.
- It was a blue, rainy Monday morning.
- Adjective (Indecent):
- He told a rather blue joke at the party.
- The comedian's act was full of blue language.
- Verb:
- The cold weather caused his lips to blue.
- She blued the fabric with indigo dye.
Advanced Usage
- "Out of the blue": Suddenly and unexpectedly.
- His resignation came completely out of the blue.
- "Once in a blue moon": Very rarely.
- We only see them once in a blue moon.
- "Blue blood": Noble or aristocratic lineage.
- The family prided themselves on their blue blood.
- "Blue-collar": Relating to manual work or workers (Note: This is a compound word listed as a variant).
- "True blue": Extremely loyal and faithful.
- He's a true blue supporter of the team.
Variants and Related Words
- Bluish/Blueish (adj): Somewhat blue.
- Blueness (n): The quality or state of being blue.
- Blueberry (n): A small blue fruit.
- Blueprint (n): A detailed plan or technical drawing.
- Blues (n, plural): A genre of music characterized by a melancholic mood; also, feelings of depression.
- Blue-collar (adj): Pertaining to manual labor jobs.
- Blue-chip (adj): Denoting companies or stocks considered reliable and profitable.
Synonyms
- Azure, Cobalt, Sapphire (for the color).
- Melancholy, Gloomy, Downcast (for sadness).
- Risqué, Ribald, Bawdy (for indecent content).
- Aristocratic, Patrician, Noble (for high social rank).
Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases
- Blue out: (Rare) To become blue or to make something blue.
- Blue up: (Informal, rare) To become sad or depressed.
Related Idioms
- Scream/shout blue murder: To protest or complain very loudly and angrily.
- He started shouting blue murder when he saw the parking ticket.
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea: In a difficult situation where both choices are bad.
- I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea; I can either take a pay cut or lose my job.
- Talk a blue streak: To talk very quickly and at great length.
- Once she gets started, she can talk a blue streak for hours.
Noun
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- he shot an arrow into the blue
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- the Union army was a vast blue
- blue clothing
- she was wearing blue
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- he had eyes of bright blue
Adjective
- 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
- morally rigorous and strict
- the puritan work ethic
- puritanic distaste for alcohol
- she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
- 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
- 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
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- foul-mouthed and blasphemous
- blue language
- profane words
- 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
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- a ragged blue line
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- October's bright blue weather- Helen Hunt Jackson
- a blue flame
- blue haze of tobacco smoke
Verb
- turn blue