Meaning (1):
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
Example in sentence:- he had eyes of bright blue
Meaning (2):
- the sky as viewed during daylight
Example in sentence:- he shot an arrow into the blue
Meaning (3):
- blue clothing
Meaning (4):
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
Example in sentence:- the Union army was a vast blue
Meaning (5):
- causing dejection
Example in sentence:- a blue day;
- a dark gloomy day;
- a disconsolate winter landscape;
- a week of rainy depressing weather;
- grim rainy weather;
- the dark days of the war;
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Meaning (6):
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
Example in sentence:- a blue family;
- an aristocratic family;
- aristocratic bearing;
- aristocratic Bostonians;
- aristocratic features;
- aristocratic government;
- blue blood;
- of gentle blood;
- patrician landholders of the American South;
- patrician tastes;
- the blue-blooded aristocracy
Meaning (7):
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
Example in sentence:- a blue flame;
- blue haze of tobacco smoke;
- October's bright blue weather
Meaning (8):
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
Example in sentence:- a blue movie;
- a juicy scandal;
- a naughty wink;
- a risque story;
- blue jokes;
- he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details;
- naughty words;
- racy anecdotes;
- spicy gossip
Meaning (9):
- filled with melancholy and despondency
Example in sentence:- a dispirited and resigned expression on her face;
- a gloomy silence;
- depressed by the loss of his job;
- downcast after his defeat;
- feeling discouraged and downhearted;
- gloomy at the thought of what he had to face;
- gloomy predictions;
- lonely and blue in a strange city;
- the darkening mood;
- took a grim view of the economy
Meaning (10):
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
Meaning (11):
- characterized by profanity or cursing
Example in sentence:- blue language;
- foul-mouthed and blasphemous;
- profane words
Meaning (12):
- morally rigorous and strict
Example in sentence:- blue laws;
- puritanic distaste for alcohol;
- she was anything but puritanical in her behavior