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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim |
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(satellite adjective) having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" |
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Synonyms: blueish, bluish, dark-blue, light-blue |
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(verb) turn blue |
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Related Words: colour, discolor, discolour |
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(satellite adjective) characterized by or marked with a bluish color; "a blue fox"; "the great blue whale"; "a blue spruce" |
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(satellite adjective) tinged with blue or purple from cold or contusion; "the children's lips are blue from cold"; "a blue bruise" |
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Synonyms: blueish, bluish |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, low, low-spirited |
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(satellite adjective) morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" |
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Synonyms: puritan, puritanic, puritanical |
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(satellite adjective) used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line" |
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(noun) any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae |
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Related Words: lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
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(noun) blue clothing; "she was wearing blue" |
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Related Words: apparel, clothes, clothing, vesture, wear, wearing apparel |
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(adjective) wearing blue; "the painting is called `the blue boy'"; "the blue team" |
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(noun) the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue" |
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Synonyms: blueness |
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Related Words: Payne's gray, Prussian blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, cerulean, chromatic color, chromatic colour, cobalt blue, dark blue, greenish blue, lazuline, navy, navy blue, peacock blue, powder blue, purplish blue, royal blue, sapphire, sky-blue, spectral color, spectral colour, steel blue, turquoise, ultramarine |
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(noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue" |
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Related Words: Union Army, organisation, organization |
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(satellite adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" |
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Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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(noun) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate used as a sedative and a hypnotic |
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Synonyms: Amytal, amobarbital sodium, blue angel |
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Related Words: amobarbital |
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(noun) the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue" |
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Synonyms: blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder |
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Related Words: sky |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician |
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(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge |
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Synonyms: blueing, bluing |
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Related Words: dye, dyestuff |
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