1. (noun) blue, blueness
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
Synonyms: blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness, blue Antonyms: cheerful, clean, neutral, unobjectionable, unsexy, indulgent, lowborn, southern, elated, achromatic
2. (noun) blue
blue clothing
Synonyms: blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness Antonyms: clean, neutral, indulgent, unsexy, southern, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, cheerful, lowborn
3. (noun) blue
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
Synonyms: blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness Antonyms: achromatic, southern, lowborn, elated, cheerful, neutral, unobjectionable, indulgent, unsexy, clean
4. (noun) blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder
the sky as viewed during daylight
Synonyms: blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness, blue Antonyms: neutral, lowborn, cheerful, unsexy, clean, indulgent, unobjectionable, achromatic, southern, elated
5. (noun) bluing, blueing, blue
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Synonyms: blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness, blue Antonyms: unsexy, clean, cheerful, achromatic, neutral, unobjectionable, elated, lowborn, indulgent, southern
6. (noun) amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal
the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
Synonyms: blue angel, blueweed, blue thistle, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, blueing, bluing, blue devil, viper's bugloss, blueness, blue Antonyms: unsexy, southern, elated, cheerful, achromatic, lowborn, unobjectionable, clean, neutral, indulgent
7. (adj) blue
any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Synonyms: blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, blueness Antonyms: indulgent, unobjectionable, clean, cheerful, unsexy, southern, lowborn, elated, achromatic, neutral
8. (adj) blue, bluish, blueish
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
Synonyms: down(p), dispirited, racy, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, down in the mouth, gentle, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, blue, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, blue-blooded, spicy, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spirited Antonyms: southern, unsexy, indulgent, cheerful, unobjectionable, achromatic, neutral, clean, elated, lowborn
9. (adj) blue
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
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 Antonyms: southern, achromatic, lowborn, cheerful, unobjectionable, clean, neutral, elated, indulgent, unsexy
10. (adj) gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
filled with melancholy and despondency
Antonyms: southern, lowborn, achromatic, unsexy, elated, clean, unobjectionable, indulgent, cheerful, neutral
11. (adj) blasphemous, blue, profane
characterized by profanity or cursing
Synonyms: down(p), dispirited, racy, sacrilegious, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, unconsecrated, gentle, disconsolate, down in the mouth, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, profane, blue, 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 Antonyms: lowborn, cheerful, indulgent, clean, unsexy, achromatic, unobjectionable, elated, southern, neutral
12. (adj) blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
suggestive of sexual impropriety
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, blue, 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 Antonyms: clean, elated, cheerful, indulgent, unsexy, achromatic, neutral, lowborn, unobjectionable, southern
13. (adj) aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
Synonyms: down(p), dispirited, racy, gamy, bluish, profane, dismal, dark, gentle, disconsolate, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, easy, down in the mouth, blue, 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 Antonyms: elated, southern, neutral, indulgent, cheerful, lowborn, clean, unobjectionable, unsexy, achromatic
14. (adj) blue(a), puritanic, puritanical
morally rigorous and strict
Antonyms: achromatic, elated, cheerful, southern, neutral, indulgent, unsexy, lowborn, unobjectionable, clean
15. (verb) blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
causing dejection
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, colored, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, blue, 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 Antonyms: unobjectionable, southern, unsexy, indulgent, clean, achromatic, neutral, lowborn, cheerful, elated
16. (verb) blue
turn blue
Antonyms: southern, indulgent, clean, cheerful, neutral, unsexy, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, lowborn
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