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Noun
Definition: blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
Definition: blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
Definition: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
Definition: the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"
Definition: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
Definition: any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Definition: The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
Definition: A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
Verb
Definition: turn blue
Definition: To make or become blue.
Definition: To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
Adjective
Definition: 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"
Definition: used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
Definition: 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"
Definition: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
Definition: 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"
Definition: 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"
Definition: morally rigorous and strict; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"; "blue laws"
Definition: 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"
Definition: Having blue as its color.