blue
Blue is defined as the color between green and indigo in the rainbow that looks like the clear daytime sky.
(noun)An example of blue is the color of the Internet Explorer icon.
The definition of blue is having the color that looks like a clear day sky or being sad.
(adjective)- An example of blue used as an adjective is the phrase a "blue shirt" which means a shirt that is that color.
- An example of blue used as an adjective is the phrase a "blue melody" which means a song that is depressing.
See blue in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adjective
- having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea
- having a bluish cast or tinge
Origin: infl. by ME blo < ON blā, livid
livid: said of the skin- sad and gloomy; depressed or depressing
- balefully murky: the air was blue with oaths
- puritanical; rigorous
- wearing blue garments: Blue Nuns
- Informal indecent; risqué; suggestive
Origin: ME & OFr bleu < Frank *blao < IE base *bhlē-wos, light-colored, blue, blond, yellow > L flavus, yellow, Brythonic blawr, gray, OE blæwen, blue, Ger blau
noun
- the color of the clear sky or the deep sea; any color between green and violet in the spectrum
- any blue pigment or dye
- bluing
- anything colored blue, as the third circle of an archer's target
- blue clothing
- a person or group wearing a blue uniform
- ☆ a Union soldier
- a sailor's blue uniform
- bluestocking
- ☆ bluefish
- blueline: usually used in pl.
See blue in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
- a. A pigment or dye imparting this hue.b. Bluing.
- a. An object having this hue.b. Dress or clothing of this hue: The ushers wore blue.
- a. A person who wears a blue uniform.b. blues A dress blue uniform, especially that of the U.S. Army.
- often Bluea. A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.b. The Union Army.
- A bluefish.
- A small blue butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
- a. The sky.b. The sea.
- Of the color blue.
- Bluish or having parts that are blue or bluish, as the blue spruce and the blue whale.
- Having a gray or purplish color, as from cold or contusion.
- Wearing blue.
- a. Gloomy; depressed. See Synonyms at depressed.b. Dismal; dreary: a blue day.
- Puritanical; strict.
- Aristocratic; patrician.
- Indecent; risqué: a blue joke; a blue movie.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English blue, bleu
Origin: , from Old French bleu
Origin: , of Germanic origin; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots
.Related Forms:
- blueˈly adverb
- blueˈness noun
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