Blue meaning

blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

“he had eyes of bright blue”

blue clothing

“she was wearing blue”

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

“the Union army was a vast blue”

the sky as viewed during daylight

“he shot an arrow into the blue”

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

turn blue

of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

“October's bright blue weather”

“a blue flame”

used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

“a ragged blue line”

filled with melancholy and despondency

“gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”

“gloomy predictions”

characterized by profanity or cursing

“foul-mouthed and blasphemous”

“blue language”

suggestive of sexual impropriety

“a blue movie”

“blue jokes”

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

“an aristocratic family”

“aristocratic Bostonians”

morally rigorous and strict

“puritanic distaste for alcohol”

“she was anything but puritanical in her behavior”

causing dejection

“a blue day”

“the dark days of the war”