blue
     adj 1: having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky;
            "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson;
            "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: {bluish},
             {blueish}, {light-blue}, {dark-blue}, {blue-black}]
     2: used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore
        blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
     3: low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city";
        "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and
        resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his
        defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: {depressed},
         {dispirited}, {down(p)}, {downcast}, {downhearted}, {down
        in the mouth}, {low}, {low-spirited}]
     4: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and
        blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: {blasphemous},
         {profane}]
     5: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue
        jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy
        details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty
        words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
        [syn: {gamy}, {gamey}, {juicy}, {naughty}, {racy}, {risque},
         {spicy}]
     6: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or
        aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic
        Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family";
        "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle
        blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South";
        "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features";
        "patrician tastes" [syn: {aristocratic}, {aristocratical},
         {blue-blooded}, {gentle}, {patrician}]
     7: morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work
        ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was
        anything but puritanical in her behavior" [syn: {blue(a)},
         {puritan}, {puritanic}, {puritanical}]
     8: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
        "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate
        winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of
        November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn:
         {dark}, {depressing}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {dispiriting},
         {gloomy}, {grim}]
     n 1: the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of
          bright blue" [syn: {blueness}]
     2: blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
     3: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue;
        "the Union army was a vast blue"
     4: the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into
        the blue" [syn: {blue sky}, {blue air}, {wild blue yonder}]
     5: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
        [syn: {bluing}, {blueing}]
     6: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a
        barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic [syn: {amobarbital
        sodium}, {blue angel}, {blue devil}, {Amytal}]
     7: any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family
        Lycaenidae
     v : turn blue
     [also: {bluest}, {bluer}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0