blue
blue is a 4-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
- superlative. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
- plural. Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
- transitive verb. To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
- 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
- adjective. causing dejection
"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
- adjective. 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"
- adjective. characterized by profanity or cursing
"foul-mouthed and blasphemous"
"blue language"
- adjective. filled with melancholy and despondency
"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
"gloomy predictions"
- adjective. morally rigorous and strict
"the puritan work ethic"
"puritanic distaste for alcohol"
- adjective. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
"an aristocratic family"
"aristocratic Bostonians"
- 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"
"blue jokes"
Synonyms
amytal, blueness, blueing, bluing, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry, blueish, bluish, blasphemous, profane, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, low
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in blue:
Common word forms
blued, bluer, blues, bluely, bluest, bluing, blueing, blueness
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