[QUOTE] [B][SIZE=4]"blue"[/SIZE][/B] [B]adjective[/B] [LIST=1] [*]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" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/bluish]bluish[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/blueish]blueish[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/light-blue]light-blue[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/dark-blue]dark-blue[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/blue-black]blue-black[/URL]] [*]used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line" [*]low in spirits; "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" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/depressed]depressed[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/dispirited]dispirited[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/down(p)]down(p)[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/downcast]downcast[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/downhearted]downhearted[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/down in the mouth]down in the mouth[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/low]low[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/low-spirited]low-spirited[/URL]] [*]characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/blasphemous]blasphemous[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/profane]profane[/URL]] [*]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" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/gamy]gamy[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/gamey]gamey[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/juicy]juicy[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/naughty]naughty[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/racy]racy[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/risque]risque[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/spicy]spicy[/URL]] [*]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" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/aristocratic]aristocratic[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/aristocratical]aristocratical[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/blue-blooded]blue-blooded[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/gentle]gentle[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/patrician]patrician[/URL]] [*]morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/blue(a)]blue(a)[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/puritan]puritan[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/puritanic]puritanic[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/puritanical]puritanical[/URL]] [*]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" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/dark]dark[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/depressing]depressing[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/disconsolate]disconsolate[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/dismal]dismal[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/dispiriting]dispiriting[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/gloomy]gloomy[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/grim]grim[/URL]] [/LIST] [B]noun[/B] [LIST=1] [*]the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/blueness]blueness[/URL]] [*]blue clothing; "she was wearing blue" [*]any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue" [*]the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/blue sky]blue sky[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/blue air]blue air[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/wild blue yonder]wild blue yonder[/URL]] [*]used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/bluing]bluing[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/blueing]blueing[/URL]] [*]the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/amobarbital sodium]amobarbital sodium[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/blue angel]blue angel[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/blue devil]blue devil[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/Amytal]Amytal[/URL]] [*]any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae [/LIST] [B]verb[/B] [LIST=1] [*]turn blue [also: [URL=http://www.word.sc/bluest]bluest[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/bluer]bluer[/URL]] [/LIST] Source: [URL=http://www.word.sc/blue]http://www.word.sc/blue[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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