Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb blue
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb blue
Entailment of verb blue
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb blue
1 sense of blue
Sense 1
blue
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
Familiarity of verb blue
blue used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count = 1)
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb blue
Sense 1
blue
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
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Grep of noun blue
baby blue-eyes
bavarian blue
blue
blue-belly
blue-blindness
blue-chip stock
blue-eyed african daisy
blue-eyed grass
blue-eyed mary
blue-green
blue-green algae
blue-headed vireo
blue-winged teal
blue african lily
blue air
blue angel
blue ash
blue baby
blue blood
blue book
blue bugle
blue bull
blue cardinal flower
blue cat
blue catfish
blue channel cat
blue channel catfish
blue cheese
blue cheese dressing
blue chip
blue cohosh
blue columbine
blue copperas
blue crab
blue curls
blue daisy
blue darter
blue devil
blue devils
blue elder
blue elderberry
blue false indigo
blue fig
blue flag
blue fleabane
blue fox
blue funk
blue goose
blue grama
blue grass
blue gum
blue jack
blue jasmine
blue jay
blue jean
blue jessamine
blue jets
blue joke
blue law
blue lotus
blue mahoe
blue marguerite
blue marlin
blue mockingbird
blue mold fungus
blue moon
blue mountain tea
blue note
blue orchid
blue pea
blue peafowl
blue peter
blue pickerel
blue pike
blue pikeperch
blue pimpernel
blue point
blue point siamese
blue pointed
blue poppy
blue racer
blue ribbon
blue ribbon jury
blue ridge
blue ridge mountains
blue runner
blue sage
blue shark
blue skullcap
blue sky
blue sky law
blue star
blue stem
blue stone
blue story
blue succory
blue thistle
blue tit
blue toadflax
blue tulip
blue vitriol
blue walleye
blue whale
blueback salmon
bluebeard
bluebell
blueberry
blueberry bush
blueberry pie
blueberry root
blueberry yogurt
bluebill
bluebird
bluebonnet
bluebottle
bluefin
bluefin tuna
bluefish
bluegill
bluegrass
bluegrass country
bluegrass region
bluegrass state
bluehead
blueing
bluejack oak
bluejacket
blueness
bluepoint
blueprint
blueprint paper
blues
bluestem
bluestem wheatgrass
bluestocking
bluestone
bluethroat
bluethroat pikeblenny
bluetick
blueweed
bluewing
bromophenol blue
bromothymol blue
bromphenol blue
bromthymol blue
cerulean blue
cobalt blue
colorado blue spruce
danish blue
dark blue
french blue
french ultramarine blue
great blue heron
great blue shark
greenish blue
iron blue
kentucky blue
kentucy blue grass
kerry blue terrier
little blue heron
maiden blue-eyed mary
methylene blue
mountain blue berry
navy blue
peacock blue
powder blue
prussian blue
purplish blue
reddish blue
royal blue
sky-blue
southern blue flag
steel blue
ultramarine blue
wild blue yonder
wooly blue curls
yellow-blue color blindness
yellow-blue dichromacy
Overview of noun blue
The noun blue has 7 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (9) blue, blueness -- (the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue")
2. (9) blue -- (blue clothing; "she was wearing blue")
3. (3) blue -- (any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue")
4. (1) blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder -- (the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue")
5. bluing, blueing, blue -- (used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge)
6. amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, Amytal -- (the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic)
7. blue -- (any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae)
Overview of verb blue
The verb blue has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. blue -- (turn blue)
Overview of adj blue
The adj blue has 11 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (49) blue, bluish, blueish, light-blue, dark-blue -- (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")
2. (13) blue -- (used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line")
3. (10) blue -- (wearing blue; "the painting is called `the blue boy'"; "the blue team")
4. (1) blue, depressed, dispirited, down downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low low-spirited -- (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")
5. (1) blasphemous, blue, profane -- (characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words")
6. blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy -- (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")
7. aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician -- (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")
8. blue, puritan, puritanic, puritanical -- (morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior")
9. blue, bluish, blueish -- (tinged with blue or purple from cold or contusion; "the children's lips are blue from cold"; "a blue bruise")
10. blue -- (characterized by or marked with a bluish color; "a blue fox"; "the great blue whale"; "a blue spruce")
11. blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim -- (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")
Antonyms of adj blue
10 of 11 senses of blue
Sense 1
blue, bluish, blueish, light-blue, dark-blue
INDIRECT (VIA chromatic) -> achromatic
Sense 2
blue
INDIRECT (VIA northern) -> southern
Sense 4
blue, depressed, dispirited, down(prenominal), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low low-spirited
INDIRECT (VIA dejected) -> elated
Sense 5
blasphemous, blue, profane
INDIRECT (VIA dirty) -> clean, unobjectionable
Sense 6
blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
INDIRECT (VIA sexy) -> unsexy
Sense 7
aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
INDIRECT (VIA noble) -> lowborn
Sense 8
blue(postnominal), puritan, puritanic, puritanical
INDIRECT (VIA nonindulgent) -> indulgent
Sense 9
blue, bluish, blueish
INDIRECT (VIA colored) -> uncolored, uncoloured
Sense 10
blue
INDIRECT (VIA colored) -> uncolored, uncoloured
Sense 11
blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim
INDIRECT (VIA cheerless) -> cheerful
Similarity of adj blue
11 senses of blue
Sense 1
blue, bluish, blueish, light-blue, dark-blue
=> chromatic (vs. achromatic)
Sense 2
blue
=> northern (vs. southern)
Sense 3
blue
Pertains to noun blue (Sense 2)
=>blue
=> clothing, clothes, apparel, vesture, wearing apparel, wear, article of clothing
Sense 4
blue, depressed, dispirited, down(prenominal), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low low-spirited
=> dejected (vs. elated)
Sense 5
blasphemous, blue, profane
=> dirty (vs. clean)
Sense 6
blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
=> sexy (vs. unsexy)
Sense 7
aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
=> noble (vs. lowborn)
Sense 8
blue(postnominal), puritan, puritanic, puritanical
=> nonindulgent (vs. indulgent)
Sense 9
blue, bluish, blueish
=> colored (vs. uncolored), coloured, in color(prenominal), colorful
Sense 10
blue
=> colored (vs. uncolored), coloured, in color(prenominal), colorful
Sense 11
blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim
=> cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful
Attributes of adj blue
Familiarity of adj blue
blue used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 11)
Grep of adj blue
black-and-blue
blue
blue-black
blue-blind
blue-blooded
blue-collar
blue-eyed
blue-green
blue-ribbon
blueish
bright blue
dark-blue
light-blue
out of the blue
peacock-blue
powder blue
sky-blue
true-blue
Overview of noun blue
The noun blue has 7 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (9) blue, blueness -- (the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue")
2. (9) blue -- (blue clothing; "she was wearing blue")
3. (3) blue -- (any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue")
4. (1) blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder -- (the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue")
5. bluing, blueing, blue -- (used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge)
6. amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, Amytal -- (the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic)
7. blue -- (any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae)
Overview of verb blue
The verb blue has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. blue -- (turn blue)
Overview of adj blue
The adj blue has 11 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (49) blue, bluish, blueish, light-blue, dark-blue -- (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")
2. (13) blue -- (used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line")
3. (10) blue -- (wearing blue; "the painting is called `the blue boy'"; "the blue team")
4. (1) blue, depressed, dispirited, down downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low low-spirited -- (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")
5. (1) blasphemous, blue, profane -- (characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words")
6. blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy -- (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")
7. aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician -- (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")
8. blue, puritan, puritanic, puritanical -- (morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior")
9. blue, bluish, blueish -- (tinged with blue or purple from cold or contusion; "the children's lips are blue from cold"; "a blue bruise")
10. blue -- (characterized by or marked with a bluish color; "a blue fox"; "the great blue whale"; "a blue spruce")
11. blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim -- (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")
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