what does blue mean?
BLUE as NOUN
- Meaning
- any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Hypernyms(s) blue is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate
- used as a sedative and a hypnotic
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Hypernyms(s) blue is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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Hypernyms(s) blue is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- the color of the clear sky in the daytime
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- he had eyes of bright blue
Hypernyms(s) blue is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
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- the Union army was a vast blue
Hypernyms(s) blue is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- the sky as viewed during daylight
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- he shot an arrow into the blue
Hypernyms(s) blue is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
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Hypernyms(s) blue is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
BLUE as VERB
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Hypernyms(s) blue is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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BLUE as ADJECTIVE
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- 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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- Meaning
- having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
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- October’’s bright blue weather- Helen Hunt Jackson
- a blue flame
- blue haze of tobacco smoke
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- characterized by profanity or cursing
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- foul-mouthed and blasphemous
- blue language
- profane words
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- 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
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- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
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- an aristocratic family
- aristocratic Bostonians
- aristocratic government
- a blue family
- blue blood
- the blue-blooded aristocracy
- of gentle blood
- patrician landholders of the
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- used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
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- suggestive of sexual impropriety
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- 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
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