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blue

adjective
  1. causing dejection
    “a blue day”
    dark
  2. of the color intermediate between green and violet
    bluish
  3. characterized by profanity or cursing
    blasphemousprofane
  4. filled with melancholy and despondency
    low
  5. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
    gentlearistocraticaristocraticalblue-bloodedpatrician
  6. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
    “a ragged blue line”
  7. suggestive of sexual impropriety
    “a blue movie”
    gamy
  8. morally rigorous and strict
    puritanicpuritanical
noun
  1. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
  2. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate
    amobarbital sodiumblue angelblue devil
  3. blue clothing
    “The police were dressed in blue.”
  4. blue color or pigment
    blueness
  5. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
    “the Union army was a vast blue”
  6. the sky as viewed during daylight
    “The archer shot an arrow into the blue.”
    blue skyblue air
  7. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
    bluingblueing
verb
  1. to turn blue
    “You are bluing.”