blue

1. Blue color or pigment;
   Resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime (synset 104976072)
   "he had eyes of bright blue"
   is a type of: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour - a color that has hue
   subtypes:

   • azure, cerulean, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue - a light shade of blue
   • powder blue - a pale blue color with grey in it
   • steel blue - a greyish blue color
   • prussian blue - a dark greenish-blue color
   • dark blue, navy, navy blue - a dark shade of blue
   • aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise - a shade of blue tinged with green
   • purplish blue, royal blue - a shade of blue tinged with purple
   • ultramarine - a vivid blue to purple-blue color
   same as: blueness
2. Blue clothing (synset 102859205)
   "she was wearing blue"
   is a type of: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
3. Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue (synset 108497858)
   "the Union army was a vast blue"
   is a type of: organisation, organization - a group of people who work together
   subtypes: union army - the northern army during the American Civil War
4. The sky as viewed during daylight (synset 109247473)
   "he shot an arrow into the blue"
   is a type of: sky - the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
   same as: blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder
5. Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge (synset 115011152)
   is a type of: dye, dyestuff - a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
   same as: blueing, bluing
6. The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate;
   Used as a sedative and a hypnotic (synset 102706551)
   is a type of: amobarbital - a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant
   same as: amobarbital sodium, amytal, blue angel, blue devil
7. Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae (synset 102284909)
   is a type of: lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly - any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
   belongs to: genus lycaena, lycaena - type genus of the Lycaenidae; small slender butterflies with upper surface of wings usually metallic blue or green or copper

1. Of the color intermediate between green and violet;
   Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky (synset 300371931)
   "October's bright blue weather"; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
   similar to: chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue
   same as: blueish, bluish
2. Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) (synset 301610640)
   "a ragged blue line"
   similar to: northern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
3. Filled with melancholy and despondency (synset 300707060)
   "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"
   similar to: dejected - affected or marked by low spirits
   same as: depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited
4. Characterized by profanity or cursing (synset 300426521)
   "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
   similar to: dirty - (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
   same as: blasphemous, profane
5. Suggestive of sexual impropriety (synset 302139604)
   "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"
   similar to: sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
   same as: gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
6. Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy (synset 301594891)
   "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"
   similar to: noble - of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times
   same as: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
7. Morally rigorous and strict (synset 301303318)
   "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"; "blue laws"
   similar to: nonindulgent, strict - characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
   same as: puritanic, puritanical
8. Causing dejection (synset 300365961)
   "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"
   similar to: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
   same as: dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry

1. Turn blue (synset 200522721)
   is a type of: color, colour, discolor, discolour - change color, often in an undesired manner

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