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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



... qualities are in the mind ONLY AS THEY ARE PERCEIVED BY IT—that is, not by way of MODE or ATTRIBUTE, but only by way of IDEA; and it no more follows the soul or mind is extended, because extension exists in it alone, than it does that it is red or blue, because those colours are ON ALL HANDS acknowledged to exist in it, and nowhere else. (2) As to what philosophers say of subject and mode, that seems very groundless and unintelligible. For instance, ...
— A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge • George Berkeley
... (1611-1632), the grandson of that Gustavus Vasa who had established both the independence and the Lutheranism of his country. Gustavus Adolphus was one of the most attractive figures of his age—in the prime of life, tall, fair, and blue-eyed, well educated and versed in seven languages, fond of music and poetry, skilled and daring in war, impetuous, well balanced, and versatile. A rare combination of the idealist and the practical man of affairs, Gustavus Adolphus had dreamed of making Protestant Sweden the leading power ...
— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes
... the library, and walked with the librarian in a pleasant, open space, near one of the chief gates or entrances before mentioned. The evening was uncommonly sweet and serene: and the moon, now nearly full, rose with more than her usual lustre ... in a sky of the deepest blue which I had yet witnessed. I shall not readily forget the conversation of that walk. My companion spoke of his own country with the sincerity of a patriot, but with the good sense of an honest, observing, reflecting ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... before his first summer was over he had quite captivated the heart of old Lady Knockdown, aunt to Lucia St. Just, and wife to Lucia's guardian; a charming old Irishwoman, who affected a pretty brogue, perhaps for the same reason that she wore a wig, and who had been, in her day, a beauty and a blue, a friend of the Miss Berrys, and Tommy Moore, and Grattan, and Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and Dan O'Connell, and all other lions and lionesses which had roared for the last sixty years about the Emerald Isle. There was no one ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... Castle on one of those serene April mornings that sail like swans across the lake of time. The episcopal standard on the highest turret hung limp; the castle quivered in the sunlight; the lawns wearing their richest green seemed as far from being walked upon as the blue sky above them. Whether it was that Mark was nervous about the result of the coming interview or whether it was that his first visit to High Thorpe had been the climax of so many new experiences, he was certainly much more sharply ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie


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