Blue Meaning

There are 16 meaning(s) for word Blue

Meaning 1 : 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

    Synonyms : blueish,  bluish
Meaning 2 : morally rigorous and strict

    Example : blue laws

    Synonyms : puritanic,  puritanical
Meaning 3 : blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

    Example : he had eyes of bright blue

    Synonyms : blueness
Meaning 4 : causing dejection

    Example : a blue day

    Synonyms : dark,  dingy,  disconsolate,  dismal,  drab,  drear,  dreary,  gloomy,  grim,  sorry
Meaning 5 : 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
Meaning 6 : belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

    Example : a blue family,blue blood,the blue-blooded aristocracy

    Synonyms : aristocratic,  aristocratical,  blue-blooded,  gentle,  patrician
Meaning 7 : suggestive of sexual impropriety

    Example : a blue movie,blue jokes

    Synonyms : gamey,  gamy,  juicy,  naughty,  racy,  risque,  spicy
Meaning 8 : filled with melancholy and despondency

    Example : lonely and blue in a strange city

    Synonyms : depressed,  dispirited,  down,  down in the mouth,  downcast,  downhearted,  gloomy,  grim,  low,  low-spirited
Meaning 9 : the sky as viewed during daylight

    Example : he shot an arrow into the blue

    Synonyms : blue air,  blue sky,  wild blue yonder
Meaning 10 : used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

    Synonyms : blueing,  bluing
Meaning 11 : characterized by profanity or cursing

    Example : blue language

    Synonyms : blasphemous,  profane
Meaning 12 : any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

Meaning 13 : any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

    Example : the Union army was a vast blue

Meaning 14 : blue clothing

    Example : she was wearing blue

Meaning 15 : turn blue

Meaning 16 : used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

    Example : a ragged blue line

How to Pronounce Blue

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