blue
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.Examples: "“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”"; ""Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue.""; "But I'm bluer than blue / Sadder than sad."Synonyms: miserable, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfalleninformal
2. (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.Examples: "The candle burns blue."
3. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.Examples: "I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections."US
4. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.Examples: "Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout"Australian
5. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.UK
6. (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
noun (English)
1. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.Examples: "Lady Penrhyn was quite handsome enough to have spared one ingredient in her cup of fascination, but, unfortunately, having been married in her teens, she expected to live in them, and, never being reminded by the trials to which her sex is subject, of the flight of years, and the inroads of suffering, expected time to stand still, and the first bloom of existence (the blue on the plum) to remain as stationary as her own taste, for the pleasures of flirtation."; "She watches the yachts in the creamy evening blues."; "Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens."countableuncountable
2. (uncountable) Blue clothing.Examples: "The boys in blue marched to the pipers."uncountable
3. (uncountable) Blue clothing.countablein-pluraluncountable
4. (uncountable) Blue clothing.Examples: "Come on, you blues!"countableuncountable
5. (uncountable) Blue clothing.Examples: "He was safe! Terrible call, blue!"countableslanguncountable
6. (uncountable) Blue clothing.Examples: "He excelled at rowing and received a blue in the sport at Oxford."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.Examples: "It blows, it snows, And blues your nose, My toes are all frost bitten The weather would Quite starve the crows, Or freeze the part you sit on."; "The dawn is wanly blueing."; "Michael: As a member of the Blue Man Group?[…] Tobias: Oh, no, no, I’m not in the group yet. No, I’m afraid I just blue myself."Synonyms: bluenergative
2. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.transitive
3. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).transitive
4. (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.Examples: "It was years since Ken had flogged her up, but blueing with him still made her ache."Australiaintransitiveslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.Examples: "They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never."datedslangtransitive
name (English)
1. (rare) A female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.rare
noun (English)
1. (historical) A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)Examples: "Have you heard any news / Of that chap in the Blues / Was it Prosser, or Pyecroft, or Pimm?"historical
Definition source: Wiktionary