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Synonyms for blue
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Princeton's WordNet
blue, blueness(noun)
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
"he had eyes of bright blue"
Synonyms:
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, achromaticblue(noun)
blue clothing
"she was wearing blue"
Synonyms:
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, lowbornblue(noun)
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 yonder(noun)
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, blue(noun)
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Synonyms:
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, Amytal(noun)
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, indulgentblue(adj)
any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Synonyms:
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, blueish(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"
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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, lowbornblue(adj)
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-spirited(adj)
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, profane(adj)
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, spicy(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"
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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, patrician(adj)
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, puritanical(adj)
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, dreary(verb)
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, elatedblue(verb)
turn blue
Antonyms:
southern, indulgent, clean, cheerful, neutral, unsexy, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, lowborn
Dictionary of English Synonymes
blue(a.)
Synonyms:
azure, cerulean, sky-coloredblue(a.)
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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 mouthblue(n.)
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
blue(a)
Synonyms:
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, literaryblue(n)
Synonyms:
azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean, cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyaninblue(n)
Synonyms:
indigo
How to use blue in a sentence?
The options will increase trading in blue chips, although initially, the volume is not big, this would be enough to fuel a technical rebound after the recent sell-off, which I think was overdone.
To become whole, i've always felt incomplete, always kind of the outsider. My adoptive parents have blonde hair blue eyes. I just kind of stood out like a sore thumb.
It was more important for us to create an event somewhere strategic to reflect the work that needed to be done in 2018. And Nevada is an example of a battleground state that went for Hillary Clinton and went blue in 2016 for the first time.
If you want a paradigm shift you cannot be among the blue chips and be super conservative.
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.
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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