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    blue - Dictionary definition and meaning for word blue

    Definition
    (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
    Synonyms : blueness
    Example Sentence
    • he had eyes of bright blue
    Definition
    (noun) blue clothing
    Example Sentence
    • she was wearing blue
    Definition
    (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
    Example Sentence
    • the Union army was a vast blue
    Definition
    (noun) the sky as viewed during daylight
    Example Sentence
    • he shot an arrow into the blue
    Definition
    (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
    Synonyms : blueing , bluing
    Definition
    (noun) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic Definition
    (noun) any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae Definition
    (verb) turn blue Definition
    (adj) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
    Synonyms : blueish , bluish
    Example Sentence
    • October's bright blue weather
    • a blue flame
    • blue haze of tobacco smoke
    Definition
    (adj) used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
    Example Sentence
    • a ragged blue line
    Definition
    (adj) filled with melancholy and despondency
    Example Sentence
    • 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
    Definition
    (adj) characterized by profanity or cursing
    Synonyms : blasphemous , profane
    Example Sentence
    • foul-mouthed and blasphemous
    • blue language
    • profane words
    Definition
    (adj) suggestive of sexual impropriety
    Synonyms : gamey , gamy , juicy , naughty , racy , risque , spicy
    Example Sentence
    • 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
    Definition
    (adj) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
    Example Sentence
    • 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
    Definition
    (adj) morally rigorous and strict
    Synonyms : puritanic , puritanical
    Example Sentence
    • the puritan work ethic
    • puritanic distaste for alcohol
    • she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
    Definition
    (adj) causing dejection
    Synonyms : dark , dingy , disconsolate , dismal , drab , drear , dreary , gloomy , grim , sorry
    Example Sentence
    • 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
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for blue

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You will be gloomy and depressed when you know that your secret sex has been shot secretly and some one made a "blue" film.

have you heard of the song “jaane kya chahe maan-feel and blue” song from pyar ke side effects, then no need more explanation


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