Blue
Meaning of Blue
noun
- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- Blue clothing
The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- A member of law enforcement
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
His request for leave came out of the blue.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- A bluefish.
- An argument.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- A type of firecracker.
- A bluestocking.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
- To make or become blue.
- To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)
- To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
- Of the colour blue.
the deep blue sea
- Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
The candle burns blue.
- Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
- Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
blue and sour religionists; blue laws
- (of women) literary; bluestockinged.
- Having a color charge of blue.
- (entertainment) Risque or obscene
His material is too blue for prime-time
- (entertainment) Pornographic or profane.
The air was blue with oaths.
Information about Blue
- The plural form of Blue is: Blues.
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Hyphenation of Blue
Blue
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- Blue is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Blue synonyms
Meaning bluish:
Meaning depressed:
depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, low
Meaning blasphemous:
Meaning gamy:
gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, spicy
Meaning aristocratic:
aristocratic, aristocratical, gentle, patrician
Meaning puritan:
puritan, puritanic, puritanical
Meaning dark:
dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Meaning blueness:
Meaning bluing:
Meaning amobarbital sodium:
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Words that rhyme with Blue
blue, reblue, trueblue, Uniblue, antiblue, nitroblue
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