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noun
  1. 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 
  2. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
    blue 
  3. blue clothing
    "she was wearing blue"
    blue 
  4. blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
    "he had eyes of bright blue"
    blue  blueness 
  5. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
    "the Union army was a vast blue"
    blue 
  6. the sky as viewed during daylight
    "he shot an arrow into the blue"
    blue sky  blue  blue air  wild blue yonder 
  7. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
    bluing  blueing  blue 
adjective
  1. 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 
  2. characterized by profanity or cursing
    "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
    blasphemous  blue  profane 
  3. 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 
  4. 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 
  5. 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 
  6. morally rigorous and strict
    "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
    blue  puritanic  puritanical 
  7. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
    "a ragged blue line"
    blue 
  8. 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
  1. turn blue
    blue 
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