English to English
adjective
- Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
He had eyes of bright blue.
source: WordNet 3.0
- blue clothing
She was wearing blue.
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- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
The Union army was a vast blue.
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- the sky as viewed during daylight
He shot an arrow into the blue.
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- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
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- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
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- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
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- One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
October's bright blue weather.
A blue flame.
Blue haze of tobacco smoke.
source: WordNet 3.0
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
A ragged blue line.
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- filled with melancholy and despondency
Gloomy at the thought of what he had to face.
Gloomy predictions.
A gloomy silence.
Took a grim view of the economy.
The darkening mood.
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.
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- characterized by profanity or cursing
Foul-mouthed and blasphemous.
Blue language.
Profane words.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- morally rigorous and strict
The puritan work ethic.
Puritanic distaste for alcohol.
She was anything but puritanical in her behavior.
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- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
verb
- turn blue
source: WordNet 3.0
- To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
adj
- [blu] Bughaw; asul
source: Diccionario Ingles-Espaņol-Tagalog
verb
- [blu] Tinain ng bughaw ķ asul
source: Diccionario Ingles-Espaņol-Tagalog