Meaning & Definition of Blue in English

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"

3. Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

• "The union army was a vast blue"

4. The sky as viewed during daylight

• "He shot an arrow into the blue"

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

7. Any of numerous small butterflies of the family lycaenidae

1. Turn 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"

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"

4. Characterized by profanity or cursing

• "Foul-mouthed and blasphemous"

• "Blue language"

• "Profane words"

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"

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"

7. Morally rigorous and strict

• "The puritan work ethic"

• "Puritanic distaste for alcohol"

• "She was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

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"