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noun- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
amobarbital sodium blue blue angel blue devil Amytal
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
blue
- blue clothing
"she was wearing blue"
blue
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
"he had eyes of bright blue"
blue blueness
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
"the Union army was a vast blue"
blue
- the sky as viewed during daylight
"he shot an arrow into the blue"
blue sky blue blue air wild blue yonder
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
bluing blueing blue
adjective- 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"
aristocratic aristocratical blue blue-blooded gentle patrician
- characterized by profanity or cursing
"foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
blasphemous blue profane
- 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"
blue bluish blueish
- 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"
gloomy grim blue depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted down in the mouth low low-spirited
- 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"
blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal gloomy grim sorry drab drear dreary
- morally rigorous and strict
"the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
blue puritanic puritanical
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
"a ragged blue line"
blue
- 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"
blue gamy gamey juicy naughty racy risque spicy
verb- turn blue
blue
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