blue > 16 sensesADJECTIVE | 1 | blue, bluish, blueish, light-blue, dark-blue, blue-black | Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky |
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2 | blue | Used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) |
3 | blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited | Low in spirits |
4 | blue, blasphemous, profane | Characterized by profanity or cursing |
5 | blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy | Suggestive of sexual impropriety |
6 | blue, aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician | Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy |
7 | blue, puritan, puritanic, puritanical | Morally rigorous and strict |
8 | blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim | Causing dejection |
NOUN | 1 | blue, blueness | The color of the clear sky in the daytime |
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2 | blue | Blue clothing |
3 | blue | Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue |
4 | blue, blue sky, blue air, wild blue yonder | The sky as viewed during daylight |
5 | blue, bluing, blueing | Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge |
6 | blue, amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal | The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate |
7 | blue | Any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae |
VERB | 1 | blue | Turn blue |
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blue > noun 1, attributeMeaning | The color of the clear sky in the daytime. |
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Examples | "he had eyes of bright blue" |
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Synonyms | blueness |
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Narrower | azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue; powder blue; steel blue; Prussian blue; dark blue, navy, navy blue; greenish blue, aqua, aquamarine, turquoise, cobalt blue, peacock blue; purplish blue, royal blue; ultramarine; Payne's gray |
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Broader | chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour |
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Verbs | blue |
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