Main entry: blue
Definition: any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Main entry: amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue, blue angel, blue devil
Definition: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
Main entry: blue
Definition: blue clothing
Usage: she was wearing blue
Definition: blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
Usage: he had eyes of bright blue
Main entry: blue
Definition: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
Usage: the Union army was a vast blue
Main entry: blue, blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder
Definition: the sky as viewed during daylight
Usage: he shot an arrow into the blue
Main entry: blue, blueing, bluing
Definition: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Main entry: blue
Definition: turn blue
Main entry: gloomy, grim, sorry, dark, drab, drear, dreary, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, blue
Definition: causing dejection
Usage: 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
Main entry: blue, blueish, bluish
Definition: of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
Usage: October's bright blue weather- Helen Hunt Jackson; a blue flame; blue haze of tobacco smoke
Main entry: profane, blasphemous, blue
Definition: characterized by profanity or cursing
Usage: foul-mouthed and blasphemous; blue language; profane words
Main entry: down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dispirited, depressed, low, low-spirited, grim, gloomy, blue
Definition: filled with melancholy and despondency
Usage: 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
Main entry: blue, puritanic, puritanical
Definition: morally rigorous and strict
Usage: the puritan work ethic; puritanic distaste for alcohol; she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
Main entry: patrician, gentle, blue, blue-blooded, aristocratic, aristocratical
Definition: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
Usage: 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
Main entry: blue
Definition: used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
Usage: a ragged blue line
Main entry: gamey, gamy, juicy, spicy, racy, risque, blue, naughty
Definition: suggestive of sexual impropriety
Usage: 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