blue, adj.
(bluer, bluest)
freq. cnt. 63
(bluer, bluest)
freq. cnt. 63
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 49 freq. cnt.: 48 freq. cnt.: 1
blue blueish bluish
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"October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson"a blue flame"
"blue haze of tobacco smoke"
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used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 13 freq. cnt.: 13
blue
characterized by profanity or cursing
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
blasphemous blue profane
sample sentences
"foul-mouthed and blasphemous""blue language"
"profane words"
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filled with melancholy and despondency
<adj.all> (p) freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
blue depressed dispirited down down in the mouth downcast downhearted gloomy grim low low-spirited
sample sentences
"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face""gloomy predictions"
"a gloomy silence"
"took a grim view of the economy"
"the darkening mood"
"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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causing dejection
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blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy grim sorry
sample sentences
"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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morally rigorous and strict
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blue puritanic puritanical
sample sentences
"puritanic distaste for alcohol""she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
"blue laws"
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belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
aristocratic aristocratical blue blue-blooded gentle patrician
sample sentences
"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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suggestive of sexual impropriety
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blue gamey gamy juicy naughty racy risque spicy
sample sentences
"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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