What are some opposite words for blue?
Antonyms for blueblue
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Princeton's WordNet
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, achromaticSynonyms:
blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessbluenoun
blue clothing
"she was wearing blue"
Antonyms:
clean, neutral, indulgent, unsexy, southern, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, cheerful, lowbornSynonyms:
blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessbluenoun
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
"the Union army was a vast blue"
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achromatic, southern, lowborn, elated, cheerful, neutral, unobjectionable, indulgent, unsexy, cleanSynonyms:
blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessblue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yondernoun
the sky as viewed during daylight
"he shot an arrow into the blue"
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neutral, lowborn, cheerful, unsexy, clean, indulgent, unobjectionable, achromatic, southern, elatedSynonyms:
blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessbluing, blueing, bluenoun
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Antonyms:
unsexy, clean, cheerful, achromatic, neutral, unobjectionable, elated, lowborn, indulgent, southernSynonyms:
blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessamobarbital 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
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unsexy, southern, elated, cheerful, achromatic, lowborn, unobjectionable, clean, neutral, indulgentSynonyms:
blue angel, blueweed, blue thistle, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, blueing, bluing, blue devil, viper's bugloss, bluenessblueadjective
any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
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indulgent, unobjectionable, clean, cheerful, unsexy, southern, lowborn, elated, achromatic, neutralSynonyms:
blue angel, blue devil, wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky, amobarbital sodium, bluing, blueing, bluenessblue, 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"
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southern, unsexy, indulgent, cheerful, unobjectionable, achromatic, neutral, clean, elated, lowbornSynonyms:
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-spiritedblueadjective
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
"a ragged blue line"
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southern, achromatic, lowborn, cheerful, unobjectionable, clean, neutral, elated, indulgent, unsexySynonyms:
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-spiritedgloomy, 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"
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southern, lowborn, achromatic, unsexy, elated, clean, unobjectionable, indulgent, cheerful, neutralblasphemous, 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, neutralSynonyms:
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-spiritedblue, 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"
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clean, elated, cheerful, indulgent, unsexy, achromatic, neutral, lowborn, unobjectionable, southernSynonyms:
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, voluptuousaristocratic, 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"
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elated, southern, neutral, indulgent, cheerful, lowborn, clean, unobjectionable, unsexy, achromaticSynonyms:
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-spiritedblue(a), puritanic, puritanicaladjective
morally rigorous and strict
"the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
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achromatic, elated, cheerful, southern, neutral, indulgent, unsexy, lowborn, unobjectionable, cleanblue, 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"
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unobjectionable, southern, unsexy, indulgent, clean, achromatic, neutral, lowborn, cheerful, elatedSynonyms:
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, begrimedblueverb
turn blue
Antonyms:
southern, indulgent, clean, cheerful, neutral, unsexy, elated, achromatic, unobjectionable, lowborn
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
blueadjective
Synonyms:
azure, cerulean, cerulific, sapphire, sapphirine, amethystine, turquoise, ultramarine, sky-colored, livid, ecchymosed, rigorous, severe, melancholy, downhearted, depressed, despondent, dejected, low-spirited, dispirited, hypochondriac, chapfallen, gloomy, gloomy, inauspicious, dismal, depressing, pedantic, literarybluenoun
Synonyms:
azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean, cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyaninbluenoun
Synonyms:
indigo
How to use blue in a sentence?
I’m really just a normal guy, I’ve always considered myself a blue collar worker, i’m just like the rest of the guys. I’m just a guy with a talent, that’s all.
In China, you have to think different, we need to utilize the blue-collar workforce to interact with the robot, and that development work has to be done in China.
It doesn’t look like there’s a blue wave, it’s turning into a bit of a blue trickle or a blue drought or something.
One of the typical color confusions we see is blue/yellow, so perhaps in this dress, the black has a bit of blue and the gold has a bit of yellow.
We've been monitoring the carbon steel subway cars and they are holding up well, they are still three dimensional, and provide thousands and thousands of square feet of hard surface for invertebrates to live on, some of which, such as blue mussels, could not live on the sand bottom that is naturally there.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#618 | blue | |
#1601 | southern | |
#1809 | clean | |
#5908 | neutral | |
#19172 | cheerful | |
#41963 | indulgent | |
#47855 | elated | |
#94143 | achromatic | |
#219755 | unobjectionable | |
#281873 | unsexy |
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