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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Blue has 7 senses
- blue(n = noun.attribute) blueness - blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue" is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
- blue(n = noun.artifact) Array - blue clothing; "she was wearing blue" is a kind of article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable
- blue(n = noun.group) Array - any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue" is a kind of organisation, organization
- blue(n = noun.object) blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder - the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue" is a kind of sky
- blue(n = noun.substance) blueing, bluing - used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge; Array is a kind of dye, dyestuff
- blue(n = noun.artifact) amobarbital sodium, amytal, blue angel, blue devil - the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic; Array is a kind of amobarbital
- blue(n = noun.animal) Array - any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae; Array is a kind of lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly
has particulars: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue, powder blue, steel blue, prussian blue, dark blue, navy, navy blue, aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise, purplish blue, royal blue, ultramarine
Derived form verb blue1
has particulars: union army
is a member of genus lycaena, lycaena
Adjective Blue has 8 senses
- blue(s = adj.all) blueish, bluish - of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" Derived form noun blueness1
- blue(s = adj.all) Array - used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
- blue(s = adj.all) depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, 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"
- blue(s = adj.all) blasphemous, profane - characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
- blue(s = adj.all) gamey, gamy, 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"
- blue(s = adj.all) aristocratic, aristocratical, 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"
- blue(s = adj.all) puritanic, puritanical - morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
- blue(s = adj.all) dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry - 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"
Verb Blue has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
Blue, a. [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black, fr. Icel.bl livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl, D. blauw, OHG. bl, G. blau; but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. blāo.].
- 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. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue. [1913 Webster]
- Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
bluestocking . [1913 Webster]"The ladies were very blue and well informed." [1913 Webster]"For his religion . . .
'T was Presbyterian, true blue." [1913 Webster]
Blue, n.
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. [1913 Webster]
- Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy. [1913 Webster]
Blue, v. t.
To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Blue, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 having a colour like that of a clear sky.
2 sad, depressed; (of a state of affairs) gloomy, dismal (feel blue; blue times).
3 indecent, pornographic (a blue film).
4 with bluish skin through cold, fear, anger, etc.
5 Brit. politically conservative.
6 having blue as a distinguishing colour (blue jay).
--n.
1 a blue colour or pigment.
2 blue clothes or material (dressed in blue).
3 Brit. a a person who has represented a university in a sport, esp. Oxford or Cambridge. b this distinction.
4 Brit. a supporter of the Conservative party.
5 any of various small blue-coloured butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
6 blue powder used to whiten laundry.
7 Austral. sl. a an argument or row. b (as a nickname) a red-headed person.
8 a blue ball, piece, etc. in a game or sport.
9 (prec. by the) the clear sky.
--v.tr. (blues, blued, bluing or blueing)
1 make blue.
2 treat with laundering blue.
--adj.
1 having a colour like that of a clear sky.
2 sad, depressed; (of a state of affairs) gloomy, dismal (feel blue; blue times).
3 indecent, pornographic (a blue film).
4 with bluish skin through cold, fear, anger, etc.
5 Brit. politically conservative.
6 having blue as a distinguishing colour (blue jay).
--n.
1 a blue colour or pigment.
2 blue clothes or material (dressed in blue).
3 Brit. a a person who has represented a university in a sport, esp. Oxford or Cambridge. b this distinction.
4 Brit. a supporter of the Conservative party.
5 any of various small blue-coloured butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
6 blue powder used to whiten laundry.
7 Austral. sl. a an argument or row. b (as a nickname) a red-headed person.
8 a blue ball, piece, etc. in a game or sport.
9 (prec. by the) the clear sky.
--v.tr. (blues, blued, bluing or blueing)
1 make blue.
2 treat with laundering blue.
Idiom
blue baby a baby with a blue complexion from lack of oxygen in the blood due to a congenital defect of the heart or great vessels. blue bag a lawyer's brief-bag. blue blood noble birth. blue-blooded of noble birth. Blue Book a report issued by Parliament or the Privy Council. blue cheese cheese produced with veins of blue mould, e.g. Stilton and Danish Blue. blue-chip (attrib.) of shares of reliable investment, though less secure than gilt-edged stock. blue-collar (attrib.) of manual or unskilled work. blue dahlia something rare or impossible. blue ensign see ENSIGN. blue-eyed boy esp. Brit. colloq. usu. derog. a favoured person; a favourite. blue funk esp. Brit. colloq. a state of great terror or panic. blue-green alga = CYANOBACTERIUM. blue ground = KIMBERLITE. blue in the face in a state of extreme anger or exasperation. blue metal broken blue stone used for road-making. blue mould a bluish fungus growing on food and other organic matter. blue-pencil (-pencilled, -pencilling; US -penciled, -penciling) censor or make cuts in (a manuscript, film, etc.). Blue Peter a blue flag with a white square raised on board a ship leaving port. blue ribbon
1 a high honour.
2 Brit. the ribbon of the Order of the Garter. blue rinse a preparation for tinting grey hair. blue roan see ROAN(1). blue rock = rock-dove (see ROCK(1)). blue stone (or vitriol) copper sulphate crystals. blue tit a common tit, Parus caeruleus, with a distinct blue crest on a black and white head. blue water open sea. blue whale a rorqual, Balaenoptera musculus, the largest known living mammal. once in a blue moon very rarely. out of the blue unexpectedly.
1 a high honour.
2 Brit. the ribbon of the Order of the Garter. blue rinse a preparation for tinting grey hair. blue roan see ROAN(1). blue rock = rock-dove (see ROCK(1)). blue stone (or vitriol) copper sulphate crystals. blue tit a common tit, Parus caeruleus, with a distinct blue crest on a black and white head. blue water open sea. blue whale a rorqual, Balaenoptera musculus, the largest known living mammal. once in a blue moon very rarely. out of the blue unexpectedly.
Derivative
blueness n.
Blue, v.tr. (blues, blued, bluing or blueing) sl. squander (money).
Etymology
perh. var. of BLOW(1)
THESAURUS
Blue
Alice blue, Amytal, Amytal pill, Brunswick blue, Caelus, Capri blue, Chinese blue, Copenhagen blue, Demerol, Dolophine, Dresden blue, Fescennine, French blue, Gobelin blue, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Persian blue, Pompeian blue, Prussian blue, Rabelaisian, Saxe blue, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, Wedgwood blue, X, absolute, air, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, aniline blue, anodyne, aquamarine, atrabiliar, atrabilious, azo blue, azulene, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureness, azureous, azurite blue, baby blue, bad, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bawdy, benzoazurine, beryl, beryl-blue, berylline, bice, black, black stuff, bleu celeste, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue sky, blue turquoise, blue velvet, blueness, blueprint, bluish, bluishness, brine, briny, broad, cadaverous, cadet blue, caelum, calamine blue, calmative, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent, chloral hydrate, ciba blue, coarse, cobalt, codeine, codeine cough syrup, cold-type proof, color proof, complete, computer proof, cope, cornflower, corpselike, crestfallen, cyan, cyanean, cyanine blue, cyanosis, dark-blue, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, deep, deep-blue, dejected, delft blue, depressant, depressed, depressor, despondent, dirty, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dolly, down, downcast, downer, downhearted, downright, drink, eerie, empyrean, erotic, ether, filthy, firmament, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foundry proof, fulsome, funky, galley, galley proof, garter blue, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glaucous blue, gloomy, glum, goofball, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hard stuff, heaven, heavens, heroin, hop, horse, hyacinth, hyaline, hypnotic, improper, impure, indecent, indelicate, indigo, indigo white, infernal, isamine blue, ithyphallic, jouvence blue, junk, knockout drops, lapis lazuli blue, laudanum, lavender blue, lewd, lift, lifts, light-blue, lightish-blue, liquor, livid, lividity, lividness, lotus, low, low-spirited, lurid, macabre, madder blue, main, marine blue, melancholic, melancholy, meperidine, methadone, methylene azure, methylene blue, morose, morphia, morphine, mortuary, narcotic, nasty, navy, navy blue, new blue, obscene, off color, off-color, offensive, old blue, opiate, opium, out-and-out, pacifier, page proof, pain killer, pale, paregoric, pavonian, pavonine, peacock blue, peacock-blue, pen yan, pensive, perfect, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, plate proof, pompadour green, pornographic, positive, powder blue, press proof, progressive proof, proof, proof sheet, pull, purple, purple heart, quietener, racy, rainbow, raunchy, red, regular, repro proof, revise, ribald, risque, sad, salacious, salty, sapphire, sapphirine, scag, scurrile, scurrilous, sea, sea blue, secobarbital sodium, sedative, sexy, shady, shit, sky, sky blue, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, slip, smack, smalt, smoke blue, smoking-room, smutty, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spicy, starry heaven, steel blue, stone proof, suggestive, sultry, tar, the blue, the blue serene, titillating, tranquilizer, trial impression, tristful, trypan blue, turps, turquoise, ultramarine, uncanny, unchaste, unclean, unearthly, unhappy, unprintable, unrepeatable, vandyke, vault, vault of heaven, vile, vulgar, wan, weird, welkin, white stuff, wicked, wistful, woad, woebegone, yellow, yellow jacket, zafferROGET THESAURUS
Blue
Blueness
N blueness, blue, garter-blue, watchet, ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen, Prussian blue, syenite blue, bice, indigo, zaffer, lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise, indicolite, blueness, bluishness, bloom, blue, azure, cerulean, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, cerulescent, powder blue, bluish, atmospheric, retiring, cold, blueness, blue, garter-blue, watchet, ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen, Prussian blue, syenite blue, bice, indigo, zaffer, lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise, indicolite, blueness, bluishness, bloom, blue, azure, cerulean, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, cerulescent, powder blue, bluish, atmospheric, retiring, cold.Knowledge
N knowledge, cognizance, cognition, cognoscence, acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity, comprehension, apprehension, recognition, appreciation, intuition, conscience, consciousness, perception, precognition, acroamatics, light, enlightenment, glimpse, inkling, glimmer, glimmering, dawn, scent, suspicion, impression, discovery, system of knowledge, body of knowledge, science, philosophy, pansophy, acroama, theory, aetiology, etiology, circle of the sciences, pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, school, tree of knowledge, republic of letters, erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters, literature, book madness, book learning, bookishness, bibliomania, bibliolatry, information, general information, store of knowledge, education, culture, menticulture, attainments, acquirements, acquisitions, accomplishments, proficiency, practical knowledge, liberal education, dilettantism, rudiments, deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning, omniscience, pantology, march of intellect, progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning, schoolmaster abroad, scholar, knowing, cognitive, acroamatic, aware of, cognizant of, conscious of, acquainted with, made acquainted with, privy to, no stranger to, au fait with, au courant, in the secret, up to, alive to, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, let into, apprized of, informed of, undeceived, proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in, conversant with, familiar with, erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated, well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated, enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned, accomplished, omniscient, self-taught, known, ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted, proverbial, familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy, hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace, cognoscible, cognizable, to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge, one's eyes being opened, ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner, to know all is to pardon all, empta dolore docet experientia, gnothi seauton, half our knowledge we must snatch not take, Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher, years teach more than books, knowledge comes but wisdom lingers, knowledge is power, les affaires font les hommes, nec scire fas est omnia, the amassed thought and experience of innumerable, was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.
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