Meaning of 'blue'

Meaning of 'blue' (Webster Dictionary)

1. Blue

[ n.]

- One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.
- A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

2. Blue

[ pl.]

- Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.

3. Blue

[ superl.]

- Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.
- Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
- Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
- Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
- Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.
- Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

4. Blue

[ v. t.]

- To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

Meaning of 'blue' (Princeton's WordNet)

1. blue

[ n]

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

Example in sentence:

she was wearing blue

Meaning (4):
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

Example in sentence:

the Union army was a vast blue

2. blue

[ s]

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):
- 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 (7):
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

Example in sentence:

a ragged blue line

Meaning (8):
- 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 (9):
- characterized by profanity or cursing

Example in sentence:

blue language;
foul-mouthed and blasphemous;
profane words

Meaning (10):
- 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 (11):
- 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 (12):
- morally rigorous and strict

Example in sentence:

blue laws;
puritanic distaste for alcohol;
she was anything but puritanical in her behavior

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