blue /blu/
1. blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
2. blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
synset: blue
3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
synset: blue
4. the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"
synset: blue_sky, blue, blue_air, wild_blue_yonder
5. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
6. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
synset: amobarbital_sodium, blue, blue_angel, blue_devil, Amytal
7. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
synset: blue
synset: blue
1. 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"
2. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
synset: blue
3. 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"
synset: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down_in_the_mouth, low, low-spirited
4. characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
synset: blasphemous, blue, profane
5. 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"
synset: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
6. 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"
synset: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
7. morally rigorous and strict; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"; "blue laws"
synset: blue, puritanic, puritanical
8. 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"
synset: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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