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