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  1. blue, bluenessnoun

    blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

    "he had eyes of bright blue"

    Antonyms:
    cheerful, clean, neutral, unobjectionable, unsexy, indulgent, lowborn, southern, elated, achromatic

    Synonyms:
    blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness

  2. bluenoun

    blue clothing

    "she was wearing blue"

    Antonyms:
    clean, neutral, indulgent, unsexy, southern, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, cheerful, lowborn

    Synonyms:
    blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness

  3. bluenoun

    any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

    "the Union army was a vast blue"

    Antonyms:
    achromatic, southern, lowborn, elated, cheerful, neutral, unobjectionable, indulgent, unsexy, clean

    Synonyms:
    blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness

  4. blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yondernoun

    the sky as viewed during daylight

    "he shot an arrow into the blue"

    Antonyms:
    neutral, lowborn, cheerful, unsexy, clean, indulgent, unobjectionable, achromatic, southern, elated

    Synonyms:
    blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness

  5. bluing, blueing, bluenoun

    used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

    Antonyms:
    unsexy, clean, cheerful, achromatic, neutral, unobjectionable, elated, lowborn, indulgent, southern

    Synonyms:
    blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness

  6. amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytalnoun

    the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

    Antonyms:
    unsexy, southern, elated, cheerful, achromatic, lowborn, unobjectionable, clean, neutral, indulgent

    Synonyms:
    blue angel, blueweed, blue thistle, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, blueing, bluing, blue devil, viper's bugloss, blueness

  7. blueadjective

    any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

    Antonyms:
    indulgent, unobjectionable, clean, cheerful, unsexy, southern, lowborn, elated, achromatic, neutral

    Synonyms:
    blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness

  8. blue, bluish, blueishadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    southern, unsexy, indulgent, cheerful, unobjectionable, achromatic, neutral, clean, elated, lowborn

    Synonyms:
    down(p), dispirited, racy, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, down in the mouth, gentle, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, blue-blooded, spicy, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spirited

  9. blueadjective

    used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

    "a ragged blue line"

    Antonyms:
    southern, achromatic, lowborn, cheerful, unobjectionable, clean, neutral, elated, indulgent, unsexy

    Synonyms:
    down(p), dispirited, racy, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, down in the mouth, gentle, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, blue-blooded, spicy, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spirited

  10. gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spiritedadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    southern, lowborn, achromatic, unsexy, elated, clean, unobjectionable, indulgent, cheerful, neutral

  11. blasphemous, blue, profaneadjective

    characterized by profanity or cursing

    "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"

    Antonyms:
    lowborn, cheerful, indulgent, clean, unsexy, achromatic, unobjectionable, elated, southern, neutral

    Synonyms:
    down(p), dispirited, racy, sacrilegious, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, unconsecrated, gentle, disconsolate, down in the mouth, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, secular, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, blue-blooded, unsanctified, spicy, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spirited

  12. blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicyadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    clean, elated, cheerful, indulgent, unsexy, achromatic, neutral, lowborn, unobjectionable, southern

    Synonyms:
    down(p), dispirited, red-hot, spirited, racy, hot, toothsome, mettlesome, gamy, zesty, bluish, fat, dismal, dark, down in the mouth, gentle, savoury, robust, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, spunky, blueish, gamey, luscious, downhearted, lively, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, high, drab, gritty, patrician, rich, blue-blooded, game, spicy, savory, full-bodied, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, piquant, risque, low-spirited, voluptuous

  13. aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patricianadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    elated, southern, neutral, indulgent, cheerful, lowborn, clean, unobjectionable, unsexy, achromatic

    Synonyms:
    down(p), dispirited, racy, gamy, bluish, profane, dismal, dark, gentle, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, easy, down in the mouth, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, docile, blue-blooded, spicy, soft, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spirited

  14. blue(a), puritanic, puritanicaladjective

    morally rigorous and strict

    "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

    Antonyms:
    achromatic, elated, cheerful, southern, neutral, indulgent, unsexy, lowborn, unobjectionable, clean

  15. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyverb

    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"

    Antonyms:
    unobjectionable, southern, unsexy, indulgent, clean, achromatic, neutral, lowborn, cheerful, elated

    Synonyms:
    black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, sorry, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, gloomy, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, puritanical, no-count, drear, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, dreary, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, drab, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, dismal, begrimed

  16. blueverb

    turn blue

    Antonyms:
    southern, indulgent, clean, cheerful, neutral, unsexy, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, lowborn

How to use blue in a sentence?

  1. Ralph Northam:

    Im here to officially declare today, November 5, 2019, that Virginia is officially blue.

  2. Maria Chan:

    He was bleeding only from the head. His face was purple and blue. Fortunately someone tried to do first aid to help him.

  3. Brock Long:

    You have to have enough roof structure to attach a blue tarp to, anytime FEMA is the first responder, the primary responder, like we were in Puerto Rico, it's never an ideal situation.

  4. Michael Watkins:

    The Mars Helicopter project has gone from' blue sky' feasibility study to workable engineering concept to achieving the first flight on another world in a little over six years.

  5. Jeannine Metivier:

    I thought he was dead, he had his head backwards and he was blue, he was all blue.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#618blue
#1601southern
#1809clean
#5908neutral
#19172cheerful
#41963indulgent
#47855elated
#94143achromatic
#219755unobjectionable
#281873unsexy

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