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adjectiveof the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
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adjectivemorally rigorous and strict
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nounblue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
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adjectivecausing dejection
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nounthe sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
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adjectivebelonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
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adjectivesuggestive of sexual impropriety
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adjectivefilled with melancholy and despondency
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nounthe sky as viewed during daylight
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nounused to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
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adjectivecharacterized by profanity or cursing
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nounany of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidaetype of:
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nounany organization or party whose uniforms or badges are bluetype of:
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nounblue clothingtype of:
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verbturn blue
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adjectiveused to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
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Examples of blue
- "October's bright blue weather"
- "a blue flame"
- "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
- "blue laws"
- "he had eyes of bright blue"
- "a blue day"
- "a blue family"
- "blue blood"
- "the blue-blooded aristocracy"
- "a blue movie"
- "blue jokes"
- "lonely and blue in a strange city"
- "he shot an arrow into the blue"
- "blue language"
- "the Union army was a vast blue"
- "she was wearing blue"
- "a ragged blue line"