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UK
/blˈuː/
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[ US /ˈbɫu/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫu/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by profanity or cursing
blue language
foul-mouthed and blasphemous
profane words -
causing dejection
a blue day
grim rainy weather
the dark days of the war
the first dismal dispiriting days of November
a week of rainy depressing weather
a dark gloomy day
a disconsolate winter landscape -
suggestive of sexual impropriety
naughty words
a juicy scandal
a blue movie
spicy gossip
he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
a risque story
blue jokes
a naughty wink
racy anecdotes -
belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
aristocratic features
aristocratic Bostonians
the blue-blooded aristocracy
patrician landholders of the American South
blue blood
patrician tastes
an aristocratic family
a blue family
aristocratic bearing
of gentle blood
aristocratic government -
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
October's bright blue weather
October's bright blue weather
a blue flame
blue haze of tobacco smoke -
morally rigorous and strict
puritanic distaste for alcohol
she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
blue laws -
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
a ragged blue line -
filled with melancholy and despondency
gloomy predictions
downcast after his defeat
depressed by the loss of his job
feeling discouraged and downhearted
a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
the darkening mood
lonely and blue in a strange city
a gloomy silence
took a grim view of the economy
NOUN
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
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the sky as viewed during daylight
he shot an arrow into the blue - any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
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any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
the Union army was a vast blue - the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
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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
VERB
- turn blue
How To Use blue In A Sentence
- Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
- Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- In 100 days we saw two pods of dolphins, a pod of blue whales and a few marine birds. Times, Sunday Times
- Particulates and dust in Earth's atmosphere along the line of sight tend to absorb blue light more effectively than red light.
- Botanical species in this ancient ecosystem included sagebrush, bluegrass, sedges, and herbs.
- Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
- Consider some of the specific encounters Blue has with women Gareth is involved with. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Questions
- He was clean-shaven, in his early 30s and wearing a dark blue t-shirt.
- It was nice to play a Wii game that wasn't full of bright greens and blues like another title featuring Mario. Epinions Recent Content for Home