blue

Pronunciation: /bluː/

The English word “blue” has 20 meanings listed here.

adjective

Of a blue hue.
Depressed, melancholic, sad.
Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
Pale, without redness or glare.
Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Having a colour charge of blue.
Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.
Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
Drunk.

noun

The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
A blue dye or pigment.
Blue clothing.
A blue uniform. See blues.

Etymology

From Middle English blew, blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew, from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”),…

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