blue

Noun

• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

• the sky as viewed during daylight
  • he shot an arrow into the blue
    

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
  • the Union army was a vast blue
    

• blue clothing
  • she was wearing blue
    

• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
  • he had eyes of bright blue
    

Adjective

• 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
    

• morally rigorous and strict
  • the puritan work ethic
    
  • puritanic distaste for alcohol
    
  • she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• characterized by profanity or cursing
  • foul-mouthed and blasphemous
    
  • blue language
    
  • profane words
    

• 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
    

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

• 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
    

Verb

• turn blue

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  amobarbital sodium , blue angel , blue devil , Amytal , bluing , blueing , blue sky , blue air , wild blue yonder , blueness , blue(a) , puritanic , puritanical , aristocratic , aristocratical , blue-blooded , gentle , patrician , gamy , gamey , juicy , naughty , racy , risque , spicy , blasphemous , profa