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Blue
adjective (compar. bluer; superl. bluest) 1.Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky. Synonyms: blueish, bluish. "A blue flame" , "Blue haze of tobacco smoke" 2.Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms). 3.Filled with melancholy and despondency. Synonyms: depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited. "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" 4.Characterized by profanity or cursing. Synonyms: blasphemous, profane. "Blue language" , "Profane words" 5.Suggestive of sexual impropriety. Synonyms: gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy. "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" 6.Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy. Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician. "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" 7.Morally rigorous and strict. Synonyms: puritanic, puritanical. "Puritanic distaste for alcohol" , "She was anything but puritanical in her behavior" 8.Causing dejection. Synonyms: dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry. "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" noun 1.Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime. Synonym: blueness. 3.Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue. 5.Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge. Synonyms: blueing, bluing. 7.Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. verb (past & past part. blued; pres. part. bluing)
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