Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
blue (adjective)1.
of the color blue
2.
a) - bluish the blue haze of tobacco smoke
b) discolored by or as if by bruising - blue with cold
c) bluish gray - a blue cat
3.
a) low in spirits - melancholy
b) marked by low spirits - depressing a blue funk things looked blue
4.
wearing blue
5.
of a woman - learned intellectual
6.
- puritanical
7.
a) - profane indecent blue movie
b) - off-color risqué blue jokes
8.
of, relating to, or used in - blues a blue song
9.
tending to support Democrats in a general election - blue states
1.
a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet
2.
a) a pigment or dye that colors blue
b) - bluing
3.
a) blue clothing or cloth
b) a blue costume or uniform
4.
a) a Union soldier in the American Civil War
b) often capitalized the Union army
5.
a) (1) - sky
(2) the far distance - disappeared into the blue
b) - sea
6.
a blue object
7.
- bluestocking
8.
any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies (family Lycaenidae)
9.
- bluefish
10.
- blue cheese
transitive verb
intransitive verb
to make blue to turn blue
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
blue (adjective)1.
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
SYNONIMS:
bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, gutter, impure, indecent, lascivious, lewd, locker-room, nasty, pornographic, porny, profane, raunchy, ribald, smutty, stag, trashy, unprintable, vulgar, wanton, X-ratedRELATED WORDS:
broad, coarse-grained, gamy ( gamey), off, off-color ( off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestive; barnyard, earthy, scatological; immodest, indecorous, indelicate, low, unbecoming; depraved, kinky, louche, naughty, perverse, perverted, wicked; exceptionable, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome; abhorrent, debasing, disgusting, loathsome, offensive, repellent ( repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting; distasteful, obnoxious, unpleasant; blamable, blameworthy, censurable, reprehensible; atrocious, infamous; abusive, scurrilous; hard-core, soft, soft-coreNEAR ANTONYMS:
priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced ( straightlaced), Victorian; correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly; innocuous, inoffensive; acceptable, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, pleasing, welcome; appropriate, becoming, fit, meet, suitable; immaculate, perfect, pure, spotless, virginal; approved, endorsed ( indorsed), sanctioned2.
feeling unhappiness
SYNONIMS:
bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretchedRELATED WORDS:
aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, upset, worried; despairing, hopeless, sunk; disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited; suicidal; dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful; regretful, rueful; agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping; black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, elegiac ( elegiacal), funereal, gray ( grey), morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, somber ( sombre), sullenNEAR ANTONYMS:
ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic ( rhapsodical); blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful; excited, thrilled; hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine; encouraged, heartened; animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy; content, gratified, pleased, satisfied; beaming, grinning, laughing, smiling; boon, carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned3.
hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent
SYNONIMS:
bawdy, blue, gamy ( gamey), lewd, off, off-color ( off-colored), racy, ribald, risqué, salty, spicyRELATED WORDS:
leering; barnyard, coarse, coarse-grained, crude, earthy, foul, gross, vulgar; dirty, filthy, gutter, indecent, lascivious, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, prurient, raunchy, smutty, stag, unprintable, unpublishable, warm, X-rated; immodest, indecorous, indelicate, naughtyNEAR ANTONYMS:
clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene; innocuous, inoffensive; priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced ( straightlaced), Victorian; correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly4.
much given to learning and thinking
SYNONIMS:
blue, cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired ( longhair), nerdish, nerdyRELATED WORDS:
cultivated, cultured; middlebrow; erudite, learned, literate, polyhistoric, polymath ( polymathic), scholarly, well-read; academic ( academical), bookish, professorial; didactic, high-toned, hyperintellectual, pedantic; high-hat, snobbish, snobby, snooty; educated, schooled; brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smartNEAR ANTONYMS:
uncultivated, uncultured; ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unread; dumb, foolish, idiotic ( idiotical), moronic, slow, stupid, unintelligent; benighted, unenlightened1.
the expanse of air surrounding the earth
SYNONIMS:
blue, firmament, heaven(s), high, welkinRELATED WORDS:
midair; horizon, skyline2.
the whole body of salt water that covers nearly three-fourths of the earth
SYNONIMS:
blue, brine, deep, Neptune, sea, seven seasRELATED WORDS:
blue water, high seas, main, waters; basin; Davy Jones's locker, depths