Definitions for Blue

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Blue blue

Spelling: [bloo]

IPA: /blu/

Blue is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Blue (belu).

Definitions for Blue

noun

1. the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
2. bluing.
3. something having a blue color:
4. a person who wears blue or is a member of a group characterized by some blue symbol:
5. (often initial capital letter) a member of the Union army in the American Civil War or the army itself. Compare gray1 (def 13).
6. bluestocking.
7. blue ribbon (def 1).
8. any of several blue-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
9. Printing. blueline.
10. the blue. the sky. the sea. the remote distance:

Idioms

1. blue in the face, exhausted and speechless, as from excessive anger, physical strain, etc.:
2. out of the blue, suddenly and unexpectedly:

adjective

1. of the color of blue:
2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Union army in the American Civil War.
3. (of the skin) discolored by cold, contusion, fear, or vascular collapse.
4. depressed in spirits; dejected; melancholy:
5. holding or offering little hope; dismal; bleak:
6. characterized by or stemming from rigid morals or religion:
7. marked by blasphemy:
8. (of an animal's pelage) grayish-blue.
9. indecent; somewhat obscene; risqué:

verb (used with object)

1. to make blue; dye a blue color.
2. to tinge with bluing:

verb (used without object)

1. to become or turn blue.

Origin of Blue

1250-1300; Middle English blewe Anglo-French blew, bl(i)u, bl(i)ef blue, livid, discolored, Old French blo, blau (French bleu) Germanic *blǣwaz; compare Old English blǣwen, contraction of blǣ

Examples for Blue

Her eyes were so blue that but for the association he would have called her Sapphira.

With the first set I did, the colors of the couch determined that the rest of it would be blue and yellow and white.

The walls are hung with blue Florentine silk, embossed in silver.

A slip of blue paper fluttered to the floor as she unfolded it.

Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

Charles had said as he fingered his throat, which was patched with black and blue.

The blue egg was the first thing she thought of when she came into the room.

Basosila Botala is wearing a blue rain jacket despite the sweltering heat.

They looked up into the blue sky as the helicopters flew over in a lost man formation.

It denotes the person that puts on the badge, puts on the blue uniform, and goes into the streets to put their life at risk.