blue




blue - noun

  • blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
  • blue clothing
  • any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
  • the sky as viewed during daylight
  • 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 butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

  • blue - verb

    • turn blue

    blue - adjective

    • of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
    • used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
    • filled with melancholy and despondency
    • characterized by profanity or cursing
    • belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
    • morally rigorous and strict
    • causing dejection

    blue - thesaurus

    amytal   aristocratic   aristocratical   blasphemous   blueing   blueish   blueness   bluing   bluish   dark   depressed   dingy   disconsolate   dismal   dispirited   down   downcast   downhearted   drab   drear   dreary   gentle   gloomy   grim   low   patrician   profane   puritanic   puritanical   sorry  

    Other Spellzone word lists: Colours, basic

    Scrabble score for blue

    b is 3 l is 1 u is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 6

    generated at 15:53:18 on 13-08-24

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