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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.
2.
Blue clothing.
3.
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue.
4.
The sky as viewed during daylight.  Synonyms: blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder.
5.
Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge.  Synonyms: blueing, bluing.
6.
The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic.  Synonyms: amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue angel, blue devil.
7.
Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
verb
(past & past part. blued; pres. part. bluing)
1.
Turn blue.



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"Blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... the spectacle our motor halted, and our Captain from Great General Headquarters in his gorgeous blue uniform climbed from the car, discussing with the mother the safety of a baby buggy riding behind a donkey cart, at the same time congratulating the soldier who rescued ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... profligate. The Prince cared no more for Whig principles than he did for his marriage-vows, but affected them as a means of annoying his father, whose Toryism was of proof. He, as a man, toasted the buff and blue, when that meant support of Washington and his associates, for the same reason that, as a boy, he had cheered for Wilkes and Liberty,—because it was the readiest way of annoying his father; but he ever deserted the Whigs when his aid and countenance could ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various
... Lincoln's first appearance in Sangamon town. To a representative of this MAGAZINE who talked with him recently in Springfield he described Lincoln's looks when he first came to town. "He was a tall, gaunt young man," Mr. Roll said, "dressed in a suit of blue homespun jeans, consisting of a roundabout jacket, waistcoat, and breeches which came to within about four inches of his feet. The latter were encased in raw-hide boots, into the top of which, most of the time, his pantaloons were stuffed. He wore ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
... its broad tires and wafted away across the sculpted sand. The desert stretched away, silent and empty, to the distant horizon; the groundcar the only humming disturbance of its silence and emptiness. The steel-blue sky shimmered above, a lens capping ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... view of the whole building, and showed me that a great canvas pipe rose high above the hotel, and, tracing it upwards, far as the eye could reach, he pointed out a balloon, anchored by cables, so high up as to be dwarfed to a mere speck against the face of the blue sky. He told me that the great pipe was double; that through one division rose the hot, exhausted air of the hotel, and that the powerful draft so created operated machinery which pumped down the pure, sweet air from a higher region, several miles above the earth; and, the current ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly


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