“blue”

Definitions

• adjective

  of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

  Synonyms: bluish, blueish, amytal, caelus, demerol, dolophine, fescennine, h, luminal, m, nembutal, rabelaisian

  • Example:“October's bright blue weather”
  • Example:“a blue flame”

• adjective

  used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

  • Example:“a ragged blue line”

• adjective

  filled with melancholy and despondency

  Synonyms: gloomy, grim, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low

  • Example:“gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”
  • Example:“gloomy predictions”

• adjective

  characterized by profanity or cursing

  Synonyms: blasphemous, profane

  • Example:“foul-mouthed and blasphemous”
  • Example:“blue language”

• adjective

  suggestive of sexual impropriety

  Synonyms: gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy

  • Example:“a blue movie”
  • Example:“blue jokes”

• adjective

  belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

  Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, gentle, patrician

  • Example:“an aristocratic family”
  • Example:“aristocratic Bostonians”