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

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