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blued

Variant of blue

adjective

  1. having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea
  2. having a bluish cast or tinge
  3. livid: said of the skin
  4. sad and gloomy; depressed or depressing
  5. balefully murky: the air was blue with oaths
  6. puritanical; rigorous
  7. wearing blue garments: Blue Nuns
  8. Informal indecent; risqué; suggestive

noun

  1. the color of the clear sky or the deep sea; any color between green and violet in the spectrum
  2. any blue pigment or dye
  3. bluing
  4. anything colored blue, as the third circle of an archer's target
    1. blue clothing
    2. a person or group wearing a blue uniform
    3. ☆ a Union soldier
    4. a sailor's blue uniform
  5. bluestocking
  6. bluefish
  7. blueline: usually used in pl.

transitive verb, intransitive verb blued, bluing or blueing

to make or become blue

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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