Dictionary entry details
• BLUE (noun)
Meaning:
Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
blueness; blue
Context example:
he had eyes of bright blue
Hypernyms ("blue" is a kind of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blue"):
ultramarine (a vivid blue to purple-blue color)
purplish blue; royal blue (a shade of blue tinged with purple)
aqua; aquamarine; cobalt blue; greenish blue; peacock blue; turquoise (a shade of blue tinged with green)
dark blue; navy; navy blue (a dark shade of blue)
Prussian blue (a dark greenish-blue color)
steel blue (a greyish blue color)
powder blue (a dusty pale blue color)
azure; cerulean; lazuline; sapphire; sky-blue (a light shade of blue)
Meaning:
Blue clothing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Context example:
she was wearing blue
Hypernyms ("blue" is a kind of...):
article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)
Meaning:
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
the Union army was a vast blue
Hypernyms ("blue" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blue"):
Union Army (the northern army during the American Civil War)
Meaning:
The sky as viewed during daylight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
blue air; blue sky; wild blue yonder; blue
Context example:
he shot an arrow into the blue
Hypernyms ("blue" is a kind of...):
sky (the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth)
Meaning:
Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
bluing; blueing; blue
Hypernyms ("blue" is a kind of...):
dye; dyestuff (a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair)
Meaning:
The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
amobarbital sodium; Amytal; blue angel; blue devil; blue
Hypernyms ("blue" is a kind of...):
amobarbital (a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relive insomnia and as an anticonvulsant)
Meaning:
Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("blue" is a kind of...):
lycaenid; lycaenid butterfly (any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae)
Holonyms ("blue" is a member of...):
genus Lycaena; Lycaena (type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper)
• BLUE (adjective)
Meaning:
Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
Synonyms:
bluish; blueish; blue
Context examples:
October's bright blue weather / a blue flame / blue haze of tobacco smoke
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Meaning:
Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
Context example:
a ragged blue line
Similar:
northern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)
Meaning:
Low in spirits
Synonyms:
low-spirited; downhearted; down in the mouth; dispirited; downcast; depressed; blue; down; low
Context examples:
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
Similar:
dejected (affected or marked by low spirits)
Meaning:
Characterized by profanity or cursing
Synonyms:
profane; blasphemous; blue
Context examples:
foul-mouthed and blasphemous / blue language / profane words
Similar:
dirty ((of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency)
Meaning:
Suggestive of sexual impropriety
Synonyms:
risque; gamey; gamy; naughty; spicy; racy; juicy; blue
Context examples:
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
Similar:
sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)
Meaning:
Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
Synonyms:
aristocratic; aristocratical; blue-blooded; patrician; gentle; blue
Context examples:
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
Similar:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Meaning:
Morally rigorous and strict
Synonyms:
puritan; puritanic; puritanical; blue
Context examples:
blue laws / the puritan work ethic / puritanic distaste for alcohol / she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
Similar:
nonindulgent; strict (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)
Meaning:
Causing dejection
Synonyms:
dreary; depressing; drear; dismal; gloomy; dispiriting; disconsolate; dingy; drab; grim; sorry; dark; blue
Context examples:
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
Similar:
cheerless; uncheerful (lacking cheer; depressing)
• BLUE (verb)
Meaning:
Turn blue
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "blue" is one way to...):
color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)
Sentence frame:
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