Blue
adjectiveAdjective
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
“October's bright blue weather”
“a blue flame”
“blue haze of tobacco smoke”
Similar:BlueishBluishbelonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
“a blue family”
“blue blood”
“the blue-blooded aristocracy”
suggestive of sexual impropriety
“a blue movie”
“blue jokes”
morally rigorous and strict
“blue laws”
Similar:PuritanicPuritanicalcausing dejection
“a blue day”
filled with melancholy and despondency
“lonely and blue in a strange city”
characterized by profanity or cursing
“blue language”
used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
“a ragged blue line”
Noun
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
“he had eyes of bright blue”
Similar:Bluenessthe sky as viewed during daylight
“he shot an arrow into the blue”
Type of:Skyany organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
“the Union army was a vast blue”
Type of:OrganizationOrganisationblue clothing
“she was wearing blue”
Type of:HabilimentWearableWearthe sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
Similar:AmytalType of:Amobarbitalused to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Similar:BlueingBluingType of:DyeDyestuffany of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Type of:Lycaenid
Verb
turn blue
Type of:DiscolorDiscolourColour
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA