| Sounds | bluw' | |
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| Rhymes | bleu ... Zulu: 18 rhymes with 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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| Synonyms | bluish, blueish | |
| Broader | chromatic | Being or having or characterized by hue |
| Spanish | azul, azulado, azul celeste, celeste | |
| Catalan | blau, blau cel, blavenc, blavís, blavós | |
| Nouns | blueness | blue color or pigment |
| Meaning | Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms). | |
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| Example | "a ragged blue line" | |
| Broader | northern | In or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line |
| Spanish | azul | |
| Catalan | blau | |
| Meaning | Filled with melancholy and despondency. | |
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| Example | "lonely and blue in a strange city" | |
| Synonyms | gloomy, grim, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited | |
| Broader | dejected | affected or marked by low spirits |
| Spanish | bajo, decaído, deprimida, deprimido, desalentado, desanimado | |
| Catalan | abatut, aclaparat, alacaigut, capbaix, capmoix, deprimit, desanimat, descoratjat, pansit | |
| Meaning | Characterized by profanity or cursing. | |
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| Example | "blue language" | |
| Synonyms | blasphemous, profane | |
| Broader | dirty | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency |
| Spanish | blasfemo, profano | |
| Catalan | blasfem, profà | |
| Meaning | Suggestive of sexual impropriety. | |
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| Synonyms | gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy | |
| Broader | sexy | marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest |
| Spanish | picante, pícaro, verde | |
| Catalan | picant, verd | |
| Meaning | belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy. | |
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| Synonyms | aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician | |
| Broader | noble | Of or belonging to or constituting / constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times |
| Spanish | aristocrática, aristocrático | |
| Catalan | aristocràtic | |
| Meaning | morally rigorous and strict. | |
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| Synonyms | puritanic, puritanical | |
| Broader | nonindulgent, strict | Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint |
| Spanish | conservador, puritano, tradicional | |
| Catalan | conservador, purità, tradicional | |
| Meaning | Causing dejection. | |
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| Example | "a blue day" | |
| Synonyms | dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary | |
| Broader | depressing, cheerless, uncheerful | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
| Spanish | deprimente, desalentador, desconsolado, macabro, negro, oscuro, triste | |
| Catalan | depriment, desconsolat, descoratjador, macabre, negre, obscur, trist | |
| Meaning | Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime. | |
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| Example | "he had eyes of bright blue" | |
| Synonym | blueness | |
| Narrower | Prussian blue | A dark greenish-blue color |
| azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue | A light shade of blue | |
| dark blue, navy, navy blue | A dark shade of blue | |
| greenish blue, aqua, aquamarine, turquoise, cobalt blue, peacock blue | A shade of blue tinged with green | |
| powder blue | A pale blue color with grey in it | |
| purplish blue, royal blue | A shade of blue tinged with purple | |
| steel blue | A greyish blue color | |
| ultramarine | A vivid blue to purple-blue color | |
| Broader | chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | A color that has hue |
| Spanish | azul | |
| Catalan | blau, blavor | |
| Verbs | blue | turn blue |
| Meaning | blue clothing. | |
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| Example | "she was wearing blue" | |
| Broader | clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment | A covering designed to be worn on a person's body |
| Spanish | azul | |
| Catalan | blau | |
| Meaning | Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue. | |
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| Example | "the Union army was a vast blue" | |
| Narrower | Union Army | The northern army during the American Civil War |
| Broader | organization, organisation | A group of people who work together |
| Meaning | The sky as viewed during daylight. | |
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| Example | "he shot an arrow into the blue" | |
| Synonyms | blue sky, blue air, wild blue yonder | |
| Broader | sky | The atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth |
| Spanish | azul del cielo, blue air, cielo azul | |
| Catalan | blue air | |
| Meaning | Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge. | |
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| Synonyms | bluing, blueing | |
| Broader | dye, dyestuff | A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair |
| Spanish | azulete, azul | |
| Catalan | blau de la roba, blauet, blau, blavet | |
| 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 | A barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects |
| Spanish | amobarbital | |
| Catalan | amobarbital | |
| Meaning | Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. | |
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| Member of | Lycaena, genus Lycaena | type genus of the Lycaenidae |
| Broader | lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly | Any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae |
| Spanish | azul | |
| Meaning | Turn blue. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color | change color, often in an undesired manner |
| Spanish | azular, azulear | |
| Catalan | blavejar, emblavir | |
| Nouns | blue | blue color or pigment |
| bluing | a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | |
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