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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
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