Thesaurus: blue

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1. superl. 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.
2. superl. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
3. superl. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
4. superl. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
5. superl. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.
6. superl. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
7. n. 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.
8. n. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
9. pl. Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
10. v. t. To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
11. adj. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
12. adj. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)