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blue
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Princeton's WordNet
blue, bluenessnoun
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
"he had eyes of bright blue"
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blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessAntonyms:
cheerful, clean, neutral, unobjectionable, unsexy, indulgent, lowborn, southern, elated, achromaticbluenoun
blue clothing
"she was wearing blue"
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blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessAntonyms:
clean, neutral, indulgent, unsexy, southern, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, cheerful, lowbornbluenoun
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
"the Union army was a vast blue"
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blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessAntonyms:
achromatic, southern, lowborn, elated, cheerful, neutral, unobjectionable, indulgent, unsexy, cleanblue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yondernoun
the sky as viewed during daylight
"he shot an arrow into the blue"
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blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessAntonyms:
neutral, lowborn, cheerful, unsexy, clean, indulgent, unobjectionable, achromatic, southern, elatedbluing, blueing, bluenoun
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
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blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessAntonyms:
unsexy, clean, cheerful, achromatic, neutral, unobjectionable, elated, lowborn, indulgent, southernamobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytalnoun
the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
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blue angel, blueweed, blue thistle, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, blueing, bluing, blue devil, viper's bugloss, bluenessAntonyms:
unsexy, southern, elated, cheerful, achromatic, lowborn, unobjectionable, clean, neutral, indulgentblueadjective
any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
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blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessAntonyms:
indulgent, unobjectionable, clean, cheerful, unsexy, southern, lowborn, elated, achromatic, neutralblue, bluish, blueishadjective
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"
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down(p), dispirited, racy, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, down in the mouth, gentle, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, blue-blooded, spicy, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spiritedAntonyms:
southern, unsexy, indulgent, cheerful, unobjectionable, achromatic, neutral, clean, elated, lowbornblueadjective
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
"a ragged blue line"
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down(p), dispirited, racy, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, down in the mouth, gentle, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, blue-blooded, spicy, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spiritedAntonyms:
southern, achromatic, lowborn, cheerful, unobjectionable, clean, neutral, elated, indulgent, unsexygloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spiritedadjective
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"
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southern, lowborn, achromatic, unsexy, elated, clean, unobjectionable, indulgent, cheerful, neutralblasphemous, blue, profaneadjective
characterized by profanity or cursing
"foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
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down(p), dispirited, racy, sacrilegious, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, unconsecrated, gentle, disconsolate, down in the mouth, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, secular, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, blue-blooded, unsanctified, spicy, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spiritedAntonyms:
lowborn, cheerful, indulgent, clean, unsexy, achromatic, unobjectionable, elated, southern, neutralblue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicyadjective
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"
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down(p), dispirited, red-hot, spirited, racy, hot, toothsome, mettlesome, gamy, zesty, bluish, fat, dismal, dark, down in the mouth, gentle, savoury, robust, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, spunky, blueish, gamey, luscious, downhearted, lively, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, high, drab, gritty, patrician, rich, blue-blooded, game, spicy, savory, full-bodied, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, piquant, risque, low-spirited, voluptuousAntonyms:
clean, elated, cheerful, indulgent, unsexy, achromatic, neutral, lowborn, unobjectionable, southernaristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patricianadjective
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"
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down(p), dispirited, racy, gamy, bluish, profane, dismal, dark, gentle, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, easy, down in the mouth, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, docile, blue-blooded, spicy, soft, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spiritedAntonyms:
elated, southern, neutral, indulgent, cheerful, lowborn, clean, unobjectionable, unsexy, achromaticblue(a), puritanic, puritanicaladjective
morally rigorous and strict
"the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
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achromatic, elated, cheerful, southern, neutral, indulgent, unsexy, lowborn, unobjectionable, cleanblue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyverb
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"
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black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, sorry, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, gloomy, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, puritanical, no-count, drear, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, dreary, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, drab, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, dismal, begrimedAntonyms:
unobjectionable, southern, unsexy, indulgent, clean, achromatic, neutral, lowborn, cheerful, elatedblueverb
turn blue
Antonyms:
southern, indulgent, clean, cheerful, neutral, unsexy, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, lowborn
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Editors Contribution
azureadjective
a shade of blue that can usually be seen when sunlight is reflected off the ocean.
the radiant azure of the water sent shivers of excitement and longing up my spine.
Submitted by Human on June 24, 2021
Dictionary of English Synonymes
blueadjective
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azure, cerulean, sky-coloredblueadjective
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[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 mouthbluenoun
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
blueadjective
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azure, cerulean, cerulific, sapphire, sapphirine, amethystine, turquoise, ultramarine, sky-colored, livid, ecchymosed, rigorous, severe, melancholy, downhearted, depressed, despondent, dejected, low-spirited, dispirited, hypochondriac, chapfallen, gloomy, gloomy, inauspicious, dismal, depressing, pedantic, literarybluenoun
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azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean, cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyaninbluenoun
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indigo
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How to use blue in a sentence?
Kim doesn't see R or D, red or blue, jen Easterly's committed to delivering democracy for the nation. Everyone wins here.
It’s obvious he’s doing an inspection. Kevin’s wearing his blue wool firefighter pants, he’s got a radio and [a department] jacket and shirt on, it’s unfortunate that somebody would mistake an Oakland firefighter, a professional who would go into harm’s way every day to protect citizens, as someone who was there for criminal intent. Kevin’s out there doing his job well and representing the Oakland Fire Department with the highest integrity.
We are a business network, we really don't focus on the red or the blue. We are just green. Money in and money out.
The red seats got redder and blue seats got bluer.
Jerry Rhodes, a 47-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, joined Point 27 after the organization sent 3,500 dog tags to them following a 2016 shooting that killed five police officers. I think the tag gives an officer something to hold on to and look at when times get tough, having and wearing the tag gives the officers a sense of peace and reminds them that someone cares about them. Since 2018, Point 27 has honored every fallen officer killed in the line of duty by offering gifts totheir relatives and their agency. The fallen includeofficers killed by illnesses related to 9/11and, this year, those who died from COVID-19. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The ultimate goal is to equip every law enforcement officer in the country with a gift of the Thin Blue Line Shields of Strength, Army Col. David Dodd said. Point 27 has equipped more than 111,000 officers across the country which is about 10 percent. In the wake of the coronavirus, Point 27 also sent 6,000 dog tags to eight hospitals in New York City engraved with Joshua 1:9, which reads :.
Translations for blue
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- أزرقArabic
- modrýCzech
- blåDanish
- blauGerman
- μπλεGreek
- bluaEsperanto
- azulSpanish
- آبیPersian
- sininenFinnish
- le bleuFrench
- gormIrish
- नीलाHindi
- kékHungarian
- ԿապույտArmenian
- biruIndonesian
- bluItalian
- כָּחוֹלHebrew
- ブルーJapanese
- ನೀಲಿKannada
- 푸른Korean
- caeruleumLatin
- blauwDutch
- blåNorwegian
- niebieskiPolish
- azulPortuguese
- albastruRomanian
- синийRussian
- blåSwedish
- நீலTamil
- నీలంTelugu
- สีน้ำเงินThai
- maviTurkish
- синійUkrainian
- نیلےUrdu
- màu xanh da trờiVietnamese
- בלויYiddish
- 蓝色Chinese
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