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[ UK /blˈuː/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫu/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by profanity or cursing
    blue language
    foul-mouthed and blasphemous
    profane words
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. morally rigorous and strict
    puritanic distaste for alcohol
    she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
    blue laws
  7. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
    a ragged blue line
  8. 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
  1. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
  2. the sky as viewed during daylight
    he shot an arrow into the blue
  3. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
  4. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
    the Union army was a vast blue
  5. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
  6. blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
    he had eyes of bright blue
  7. blue clothing
    she was wearing blue
VERB
  1. 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
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