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say it: bloo
blue is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky". It is pronounced /ˈblu/ — bloo. It carries 16 recorded senses.
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
“a ragged blue line”
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”
characterized by profanity or cursing
“foul-mouthed and blasphemous”
“blue language”
“profane words”
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”
morally rigorous and strict
“puritanic distaste for alcohol”
“she was anything but puritanical in her behavior”
“blue laws”
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
“he had eyes of bright blue”
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
“the Union army was a vast blue”
the sky as viewed during daylight
“he shot an arrow into the blue”
the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
turn blue
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blue come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.