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| Shopping | The largest selection of BLUE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | bluw' |
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| Rhymes | bleu, clue, flue, and 15 more rhymes in luw... |
| Meaning | Of the color intermediate between green and violet. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky. |
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| Examples | "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" |
| Synonyms | bluish, blueish |
| Similar to | chromatic |
| Nouns | blueness |
| Meaning | Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms). |
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| Examples | "a ragged blue line" |
| Similar to | northern |
| Meaning | Low in spirits. |
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| Examples | "lonely and blue in a strange city" |
| Synonyms | depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited |
| Similar to | dejected |
| Meaning | Characterized by profanity or cursing. |
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| Examples | "blue language" |
| Synonyms | blasphemous, profane |
| Similar to | dirty |
| Meaning | Suggestive of sexual impropriety. |
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| Examples | "a blue movie"; "blue jokes" |
| Synonyms | gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
| Similar to | sexy |
| Meaning | Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy. |
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| Examples | "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy" |
| Synonyms | aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician |
| Similar to | noble |
| Meaning | Morally rigorous and strict. |
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| Examples | "blue laws" |
| Synonyms | puritan, puritanic, puritanical |
| Similar to | nonindulgent, strict |
| Meaning | Causing dejection. |
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| Examples | "a blue day" |
| Synonyms | dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary |
| Similar to | cheerless, uncheerful |
| Meaning | Blue color or pigment. Resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime. |
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| Examples | "he had eyes of bright blue" |
| Synonyms | blueness |
| Broader | chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour |
| Narrower | azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue; powder blue; steel blue; Prussian blue; dark blue, navy, navy blue; greenish blue, aqua, aquamarine, turquoise, cobalt blue, peacock blue; purplish blue, royal blue; ultramarine |
| Verbs | blue |
| Meaning | Blue clothing. |
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| Examples | "she was wearing blue" |
| Broader | clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment |
| Meaning | Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue. |
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| Examples | "the Union army was a vast blue" |
| Broader | organization, organisation |
| Narrower | Union Army |
| Meaning | The sky as viewed during daylight. |
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| Examples | "he shot an arrow into the blue" |
| Synonyms | blue sky, blue air, wild blue yonder |
| Broader | sky |
| Meaning | Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge. |
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| Synonyms | bluing, blueing |
| Broader | dye, dyestuff |
| Meaning | The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate. Used as a sedative and a hypnotic. |
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| Synonyms | amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal |
| Broader | amobarbital |
| Meaning | Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. |
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| Member of | Lycaena, genus Lycaena |
| Broader | lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly |
| Meaning | Turn blue. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color |
| Nouns | bluing; blue |
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