English to English adjective
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Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | | Example: October's bright blue weather a blue flame blue haze of tobacco smoke
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used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) | | Example: a ragged blue line
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filled with melancholy and despondency | | Example: 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
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characterized by profanity or cursing | | Example: foul-mouthed and blasphemous blue language profane words
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suggestive of sexual impropriety | | Example: 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
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belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | | Example: 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
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morally rigorous and strict | | Example: the puritan work ethic puritanic distaste for alcohol she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
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causing dejection | | Example: 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
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blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | | Example: he had eyes of bright blue
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blue clothing | | Example: she was wearing blue
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any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue | | Example: the Union army was a vast blue
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the sky as viewed during daylight | | Example: he shot an arrow into the blue
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used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | | source: wordnet30
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the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic | | source: wordnet30
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any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae | | source: wordnet30
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One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky. | | source: webster1913 verb
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turn blue | | source: wordnet30
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To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc. | | source: webster1913
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