blue synonyms
blue
modif.
One of the primary colors
of the color of the sky, azure, cerulean, sky-blue. Hues of blue include: indigo, watchet, sapphire, sapphirine, turquoise, smalt, lapis lazuli, aquamarine, aqua, blue-black, blue-green; royal, Prussian, navy, Dumont's, king's, starch, powder, baby, Paris, cobalt, Antwerp, Haarlem, mineral, Parma, Napoleon, Chinese, robin's egg, pale, teal, sky, slate, light, dark, deep, livid, electric, etc., blue.
*Despondent
depressed, moody, melancholy; see sad 1.
once in a blue moon
blue
n.
One of the primary colors
blueness, bluing, azure, sky blue; see blue (modif.) 1, color 1.Heavens
sky, vault of the sky, ether, the wild blue yonder*; see heaven 1, sky, space 1.
out of the blue
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