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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"
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, 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"
Synonyms:
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
Synonyms:
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
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, literarybluenoun
Synonyms:
azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean, cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyaninbluenoun
Synonyms:
indigo
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How to use blue in a sentence?
Blue Coat had tremendous growth behind the scenes and now I get to focus on taking that growth and trying to get it to the billion-dollar revenue mark.
It's just a blue wave, and I think that scared some people off, on paper, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine has an incredible amount of money. You've got to have a lot of courage to take Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine on.
The Blue Girl and her stories did help. Of course, efforts by women activists and feminists were very effective, we are happy anyway and hope this will continue, not just in national team matches.
The market was caught on the wrong foot as everyone expected talks were heading in the right direction and almost close to finishing, this was totally out of the blue and the reaction is that we have more risk aversion today.
Out of the blue, about a week and a half ago, we’re eating breakfast… she looks up and goes, ‘I don’t want a baby sister!’ Firm, just direct eye contact, and that was it.
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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