English dictionary
blue
adjectiveAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- causing dejection
adjective
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
adjective
- characterized by profanity or cursing
adjective
- filled with melancholy and despondency
adjective
- morally rigorous and strict
adjective
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
adjective
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
adjective
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
noun
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
noun
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
noun
- blue clothing
noun
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
noun
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
noun
- the sky as viewed during daylight
noun
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
verb
- turn blue
Example sentences
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
{'source': 'Helen Hunt Jackson', 'text': "October's bright blue weather"}
a blue flame
blue haze of tobacco smoke
foul-mouthed and blasphemous
blue language
profane words
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
puritanic distaste for alcohol
she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
blue laws
an aristocratic family
aristocratic Bostonians
aristocratic government
a blue family
blue blood
a ragged blue line
a blue movie
blue jokes
he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
a juicy scandal
a naughty wink
she was wearing blue
he had eyes of bright blue
the Union army was a vast blue
he shot an arrow into the blue