Meaning of blue | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a blue hue.
2. Depressed, melancholic, sad.
   informal
3. a police officer
4. Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
5. Pale, without redness or glare.
6. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
   US
7. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
   US
8. Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
   Australian
9. Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
   UK
10. Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
11. Having a colour charge of blue.
    particle
12. Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
13. Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
14. Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
    archaic
15. Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.
    archaic
16. Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
    informal
17. Drunk.
    dated, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“the deep blue sea”

“Why is the sky blue?”

“He was wearing a blue t-shirt.”

“Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows. Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive”

““Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]””

“"Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue."”

“But I'm bluer than blue / Sadder than sad.”

“My hands were blue with cold.”

“The divers got them out of the car just in time – they were starting to turn blue.”

“The candle burns blue.”

“I live in a blue constituency.  Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.”

“Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout”

“blue and sour religionists;  blue laws”

“Some of the ladies were very blue and well informed, reading Mrs. Somerville and frequenting the Royal Institution; others were severe and Evangelical, and held by Exeter Hall.”

“His material is too blue for prime time.”

“The air was blue with oaths.”

“a blue movie”

“My wine I drank and oft got blue / On brandy, gin and whisky too— / Until my reputation gay, / Along with care, was cast away —”

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