blue

Definitions

1. 1superlative

   Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.

2. 2superlative

   Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

3. 3superlative

   Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

4. 4superlative

   Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.

5. 5superlative

   Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

6. 6superlative

   Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

7. 7noun

   One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

8. 8noun

   A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

9. 9plural

   Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.

10. 10transitive verb

    To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

11. 11noun

    any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

12. 12noun

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

    Synonyms

    amytal
13. 13noun

    blue clothing

    "she was wearing blue"

14. 14noun

    blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

    "he had eyes of bright blue"

    Synonyms

    blueness
15. 15noun

    any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

    "the Union army was a vast blue"

16. 16noun

    the sky as viewed during daylight

    "he shot an arrow into the blue"

17. 17noun

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

    Synonyms

    blueingbluing
18. 18verb

    turn blue

19. 19adjective

    causing dejection

    "a blue day"

    "the dark days of the war"

    Synonyms

    darkdingydisconsolatedismaldrabdreardrearygloomygrimsorry
20. 20adjective

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

    "October's bright blue weather"

    "a blue flame"

    Synonyms

    blueishbluish
21. 21adjective

    characterized by profanity or cursing

    "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"

    "blue language"

    Synonyms

    blasphemousprofane
22. 22adjective

    filled with melancholy and despondency

    "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"

    "gloomy predictions"

    Synonyms

    depresseddispiriteddowndowncastdownheartedgloomygrimlow
23. 23adjective

    morally rigorous and strict

    "the puritan work ethic"

    "puritanic distaste for alcohol"

    Synonyms

    puritanicpuritanical
24. 24adjective

    belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

    "an aristocratic family"

    "aristocratic Bostonians"

    Synonyms

    aristocraticaristocraticalgentlepatrician
25. 25adjective

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

    "a ragged blue line"

26. 26adjective

    suggestive of sexual impropriety

    "a blue movie"

    "blue jokes"

    Synonyms

    gameygamyjuicynaughtyracyrisquespicy