Blue
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English
Pronunciation
- blo͞o, /bluː/, /blu:/
Homophones
Adjective
blue (comparative bluer, superlative bluest)
- Of the colour blue.
- (colloquial) Depressed, melancholic.
- (British colloquial) (of a film, etc) Pornographic.
Translations
of the colour blue
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colloquial: depressed
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colloquial: pornographic
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Translations to be checked
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is not necessarily reliable.
- Bulgarian: потиснат m (2), депресиран m (2)
- German: traurig (2)
Noun
blue (plural blues)
- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters.
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See also
Translations
colour/color
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Derived terms
- the blues
- bluish
- blue-blooded
- blue-chip
- blue movie
- blue pencil
- blue note
- blueprint
- bluestocking
- blue whale
- blue wren
- baby blue
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- black and blue
- bolt from the blue
- dark blue
- in a blue funk
- light blue
- once in a blue moon
- out of the blue
- scream blue murder
- sky blue
- steel blue
- true-blue
- until one is blue in the face