DICTOMETER

BLUE(PRENOMINAL)

1. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   • Blueness
   Definitions:
   • blue color or pigment
   • resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
   Examples:
   • He had eyes of bright blue
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   Definitions:
   • blue clothing
   Examples:
   • She was wearing blue
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   Definitions:
   • any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
   Examples:
   • The Union army was a vast blue
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Blue sky
   • Blue
   • Blue air
   • Wild blue yonder
   Definitions:
   • the sky as viewed during daylight
   Examples:
   • He shot an arrow into the blue
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Bluing
   • Blueing
   • Blue
   Definitions:
   • used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Amobarbital sodium
   • Blue
   • Blue angel
   • Blue devil
   • Amytal
   Definitions:
   • the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate
   • used as a sedative and a hypnotic
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   Definitions:
   • any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   Definitions:
   • turn blue
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   • Bluish
   • Blueish
   Definitions:
   • of the color intermediate between green and violet
   • having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
   Examples:
   • October's bright blue weather- Helen Hunt Jackson
   • A blue flame
   • Blue haze of tobacco smoke
   Antonyms:
   • Achromatic
   • Neutral
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   Definitions:
   • used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
   Examples:
   • A ragged blue line
   Antonyms:
   • Southern
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Gloomy
   • Grim
   • Blue
   • Depressed
   • Dispirited
   • Down
   • Downcast
   • Downhearted
   • Down in the mouth
   • Low
   • Low-spirited
   Definitions:
   • filled with melancholy and despondency
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Elated
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Blasphemous
   • Blue
   • Profane
   Definitions:
   • characterized by profanity or cursing
   Examples:
   • Foul-mouthed and blasphemous
   • Blue language
   • Profane words
   Antonyms:
   • Clean
   • Unobjectionable
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   • Gamy
   • Gamey
   • Juicy
   • Naughty
   • Racy
   • Risque
   • Spicy
   Definitions:
   • suggestive of sexual impropriety
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Unsexy
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Aristocratic
   • Aristocratical
   • Blue
   • Blue-blooded
   • Gentle
   • Patrician
   Definitions:
   • belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Lowborn
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   • Puritanic
   • Puritanical
   Definitions:
   • morally rigorous and strict
   Examples:
   • The puritan work ethic
   • Puritanic distaste for alcohol
   • She was anything but puritanical in her behavior
   Antonyms:
   • Indulgent
   
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   • Dark
   • Dingy
   • Disconsolate
   • Dismal
   • Gloomy
   • Grim
   • Sorry
   • Drab
   • Drear
   • Dreary
   Definitions:
   • causing dejection
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Cheerful