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blue
causing dejection
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adjective
causing dejection
“a blue day”
adjective
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
“{'source': 'Helen Hunt Jackson', 'text': "October's bright blue weather"}”
adjective
characterized by profanity or cursing
“foul-mouthed and blasphemous”
adjective
filled with melancholy and despondency
“gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”
adjective
morally rigorous and strict
“puritanic distaste for alcohol”
adjective
belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
“an aristocratic family”
adjective
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
“a ragged blue line”
adjective
suggestive of sexual impropriety
“a blue movie”
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
“she was wearing blue”
noun
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
“he had eyes of bright blue”
noun
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
“the Union army was a vast blue”
noun
the sky as viewed during daylight
“he shot an arrow into the blue”
noun
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
verb
turn blue
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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
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