Definitions of BLUE [ˈblʌdʒ ən]

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Definition of 'BLUE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) blue
the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.

2.  blue
something having a blue color.

3.  blue
a person wearing blue or belonging to a group identified by some blue symbol.

4.  blue
(often cap.) a member of the Union army in the American Civil War, or the army itself.

5.  blue
any of several blue-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

6.  blue
the blue,

7.  blue
the sky.

8.  blue
the sea.

9.  blue
the remote distance.

10. (adj.) blue
of the color blue.

11.  blue
(of the skin) discolored by cold, contusion, fear, or vascular collapse.

12.  blue
depressed in spirits; dejected; melancholy.

13.  blue
holding or offering little hope; dismal; bleak:
a blue outlook.

14.  blue
adhering to or stemming from rigid moral or religious observance; puritanical.

15.  blue
indecent; suggestive or obscene; risqué:
a blue joke.

16.  blue
marked by blasphemy:
The air was blue with oaths.

17. (v.t.) blue
to make blue; dye a blue color.

18.  blue
to tinge with bluing.

19. (v.i.) blue
to become or turn blue.

20.  blue
blue in the face, at an extreme point of frustration, irritation, discouragement, etc.:
to argue till one is blue in the face.

21.  blue
out of the blue, suddenly and unexpectedly.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME blewe < AF blew, bl(i)u blue, livid, OF blo, blau < Gmc *blæmacr;waz)

Definition of 'BLUE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) blue, blueness
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
"he had eyes of bright blue"

2. (noun) blue
blue clothing
"she was wearing blue"

3. (noun) blue
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
"the Union army was a vast blue"

4. (noun) blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder
the sky as viewed during daylight
"he shot an arrow into the blue"

5. (noun) bluing, blueing, blue
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

6. (noun) amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal
the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

7. (adj) blue
any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

8. (adj) blue, bluish, blueish
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"

9. (adj) blue
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
"a ragged blue line"

10. (adj) gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
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"

11. (adj) blasphemous, blue, profane
characterized by profanity or cursing
"foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"

12. (adj) blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
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"

13. (adj) aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
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"

14. (adj) blue(a), puritanic, puritanical
morally rigorous and strict
"the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

15. (verb) blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
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"

16. (verb) blue
turn blue

Definition of 'BLUE'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) blue
being the color of the sky
blue eyes/jeans

2. blue
sad
I was feeling blue.

3. (noun) blue
the color of the sky
a dark/light blue; a room done in blues and greens

4. blue
out of the blue
unexpectedly
Her decision came out of the blue.

Definition of 'BLUE'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) BLUE
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

2. (noun) BLUE
a pedantic woman; a bluestocking

3.  BLUE
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

4.  BLUE
pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths

5.  BLUE
low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue

6.  BLUE
suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue

7.  BLUE
severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws

8.  BLUE
literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking

9.  BLUE
low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy

10. (verb) BLUE
to make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc

Translation of 'BLUE'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: of the colour of a cloudless sky blue paint; Her eyes are blue.
Afrikaans: blou	Arabic: أزْرَق	Bulgarian: син
Brazilian: azul	Czech: modrý	German: blau
Danish: blå	Greek: μπλε, γαλάζιος	Spanish: azul
Estonian: sinine	Farsi: آبی	Finnish: sininen
French: bleu	Hebrew: כָּחֹל @@@כָּחוֹל$$$	Hindi: नीला
Croatian: plavo	Hungarian: kék	Indonesian: biru
Icelandic: blár litur	Italian: blu, azzurro	Japanese: 青い
Korean: 파란색의	Lithuanian: mėlynas	Latvian: zils
Malay: biru	Dutch: blauw	Norwegian: blå(farget)
Polish: niebieski	Persian: آبی	Pashto: اوبیز
Portuguese: azul	Romanian: albastru	Russian: голубой, синий
Slovak: modrý	Slovenian: moder	Serbian: plav
Swedish: blå	Thai: ฟ้า; น้ำเงิน	Turkish: mavi
Taiwanese: 天藍色的	Ukrainian: синій; блакитний	Urdu: نیلا
Vietnamese: xanh	Chinese: 天蓝色的
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