blue - 17 definitions |
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| 1. | blue -- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue" |
| synonyms: blueness |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 2. | blue -- blue clothing; "she was wearing blue" |
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| 3. | blue -- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue" |
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| 4. | blue sky -- the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue" |
| synonyms: blue sky, blue air, wild blue yonder |
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| 5. | bluing -- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge |
| synonyms: bluing, blueing |
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| 6. | amobarbital sodium -- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic |
| synonyms: amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal |
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| 7. | blue -- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae |
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| - verb |
| 8. | blue -- turn blue |
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| 9. | blue, blue -- to make blue |
| synonyms: blued, bluer, blues, bluest |
| Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language |
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| - adjective |
| 10. | blue -- 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" |
| synonyms: bluish, blueish |
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| 11. | blue -- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line" |
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| 12. | gloomy -- 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" |
| synonyms: gloomy, grim, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited |
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| 13. | blasphemous -- characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" |
| synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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| 14. | blue -- 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" |
| synonyms: gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
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| 15. | aristocratic -- 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" |
| synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician |
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| 16. | blue -- morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" |
| synonyms: puritanic, puritanical |
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| 17. | blue -- 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" |
| synonyms: dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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