Blue

/bluː/ · adjective

Meaning

Of a blue hue..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a blue hue.
2. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
3. Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
4. (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
5. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
6. (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
7. (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
8. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.

Example Sentences

the deep blue sea

Why is the sky blue?

He was wearing a blue t-shirt.

Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows. Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive

“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”

"Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue."

But I'm bluer than blue / Sadder than sad.

My hands were blue with cold.

Synonyms for blue

Antonyms for blue

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Word Forms

• bluer
• more blue
• bluest
• most blue
• blew
• blewe
• blues
• blueing
• bluing
• blued

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