EGAVE

blue

About 57.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of a blue hue.
    the deep blue sea
  2. adjective Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  3. adjective Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
    My hands were blue with cold.
  4. adjective Pale, without redness or glare.
    The candle burns blue.
  5. adjective Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
  6. adjective Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
  7. adjective Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
    Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
  8. adjective Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.

Similar words

bluish blue sky blueish spicy amytal low colored colorful coloured chromatic

Often followed by

eyes and sky of ridge or light in book

Word family

Blue Blues blued blueing bluely blueness bluenesses bluer blues bluest

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