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

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