| 单词 | blue |
| 释义 | blue (once / 43 pages) 1adjnv 2nadj 3adj 4adj 5adj 6adj 7n 8n 9n Among other things, blue is a color and a dreary mood. If the blue sky and ocean have turned gray and stormy, you might be blue because your day at the beach is ruined. Whether it's a primary color or a saddened mood, blue is used often as an adjective for people and things. Blue is a mix of green and purple shades, and it's the favorite color of many. The color blue might bring thoughts of first-place blue ribbons or police officers in blue uniforms, and it colors many flags of the world. Blue is everywhere, but there isn't a lot of blue food unless it's colored with dye. Even blueberries are mostly purple. WORD FAMILYblue: blued, blueing, blueish, bluely, blueness, bluer, blues, bluest, bluing, bluish+/bluish: bluishly USAGE EXAMPLESReally out of the blue, Heinz tells Nathalie he has become involved with another woman and is leaving their home to move in with her. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) ELKHORN, Wis. — The basement room was cleared of pens with blue or black ink, items that could mar paper ballots. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) But at the end of the sessions we said, ‘We made a blues album!’ Washington Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1adj of the color intermediate between green and violet; 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 blueish, bluish chromatic being or having or characterized by hue 2n blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime he had eyes of bright blue Syn|Hypo|Hyper blueness azure, cerulean, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue a light shade of blue powder bluea pale blue color with grey in it steel bluea greyish blue color Prussian bluea dark greenish-blue color dark blue, navy, navy bluea dark shade of blue aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoisea shade of blue tinged with green purplish blue, royal bluea shade of blue tinged with purple ultramarinea vivid blue to purple-blue color chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour a color that has hue 3n the sky as viewed during daylight he shot an arrow into the blue Syn|Hyper blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder sky the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth 4v turn blue 2Hyper color, colour, discolor, discolour change color, often in an undesired manner 1n blue clothing she was wearing blue Hyper article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable a covering designed to be worn on a person's body 2n any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue the Union army was a vast blue Hypo|Hyper Union Army the northern army during the American Civil War organisation, organization a group of people who work together 3adj used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) 3a ragged blue line Syn northern in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line 1adj filled with melancholy and despondency lonely and blue in a strange city Syn depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited dejected affected or marked by low spirits 2adj causing dejection 4a blue day Syn dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy 1adj characterized by profanity or cursing blue language Syn blasphemous, profane dirty (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency 2adj suggestive of sexual impropriety 5a blue movie blue jokes Syn gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy sexy marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest adj belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy 6a blue family blue blood the blue-blooded aristocracy Syn aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician noble of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times adj morally rigorous and strict 7Syn puritanic, puritanical nonindulgent, strict characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint n the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic 8Syn|Hyper Amytal, amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil amobarbital a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant n any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae 9Hyper lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae n used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge Syn|Hyper blueing, bluing dye, dyestuff a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair |
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