blue

having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

• “October”
• “- Helen Hunt Jackson;”
• “;”

used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

• “a ragged blue line”

low in spirits

• “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”

characterized by profanity or cursing

• “foul-mouthed and blasphemous”
• “blue language”
• “profane words”

suggestive of sexual impropriety

• “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”

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• “an aristocratic family”
• “aristocratic Bostonians”
• “aristocratic government”
• “a blue family”
• “blue blood”
• “the blue-blooded aristocracy”
• “of gentle blood”
• “patrician landholders of the American South”
• “aristocratic bearing”
• “aristocratic features”
• “patrician tastes”

morally rigorous and strict

• “blue laws”
• “the puritan work ethic”
• “puritanic distaste for alcohol”
• “she was anything but puritanical in her behavior”

causing dejection

• “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”

the color of the clear sky in the daytime

• “he had eyes of bright blue”

blue clothing

• “she was wearing blue”

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

• “the Union army was a vast blue”

the sky as viewed during daylight

• “he shot an arrow into the blue”

used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

turn blue