Blue

[bluː] or [blʊ]

Definition

(noun.) any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

(noun.) blue clothing; 'she was wearing blue'.

(noun.) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; 'he had eyes of bright blue'.

(noun.) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; 'the Union army was a vast blue'.

(verb.) turn blue.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); 'a ragged blue line' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) morally rigorous and strict; 'the puritan work ethic'; 'puritanic distaste for alcohol'; 'she was anything but puritanical in her behavior' .

Edited by Georgina--From WordNet

Definition

(superl.) Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.

(superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

(superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

(superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.

(superl.) Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

(superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

(n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

(n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

(pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.

(v. t.) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

Typed by Carla

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Azure, cerulean, sky-colored.[2]. [Colloquial.] Melancholy, dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, glum, gloomy, mopish, downcast, desponding, downhearted, hypochondriac, hypped, chopfallen, low-spirited, cast down, in the dumps, with a long face, down in the mouth.

n. Azure, sky-color.

Edited by Faye