Word Finder - blue

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Of a blue hue.

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(informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.

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Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.

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(of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.

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(politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

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(astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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(particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.

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(of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.

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(of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.

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(archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.

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(archaic, of women) Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.

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(informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.

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(slang, dated) Drunk.

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(countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.

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Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.

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A blue dye or pigment.

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(uncountable) Blue clothing.

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The sky, literally or figuratively.

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The ocean; deep waters.

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The far distance; a remote or distant place.

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A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.

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(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.

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(entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.

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A bluefish.

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(Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.

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A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.

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Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.

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(British) A type of firecracker.

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(particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.

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(UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.

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A blue cheese.

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(slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.

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(ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.

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(transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

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(transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).

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(intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.

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(transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.