Synonyms for blue
- adjective
- noun
Most common
down-hearted drab livid dingy juicy gamey blasphemous sapphire
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Dark — depressed, melancholic, sad
down-hearted, dark, gloomy, depressed, low-spirited, downcast, down, dejected, dismal, dispirited, low, melancholy, sad, glum, dull, moody, despondent, disconsolate, dingy, livid, drab, dreary
2. Naughty — risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic
3. Dirty
dirty, vulgar, impure, obscene, profane, blasphemous, ithyphallic rare
4. Blue-blooded
blue-blooded, gentle, aristocratic, patrician, aristocratical rare
Other
sapphire, bluish, adult, strict, rude, pornographic, mooing, puritanical, puritanic rare
Noun
1. Turquoise
turquoise, cerulean, sky-blue, azure, indigo, ultramarine, sky, aquamarine, blueness
Other
navy, cyan, wild blue yonder, amytal, sapphirine rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- adj. 2
Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
The air was blue with oaths.
- adj. 3
Of a blue hue.
He was wearing a blue t-shirt.
- n. 1
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.
Related words
- Word family
- blue-ball blue-baller bluebell bluebill bluebird blue-blooded blue-chipper bluecoat
- Phrases
- blue daisy blue snakeweed blue dandelion blue weed blue angel blue devil sky-blue blue cohosh
- Is a kind of
- color hue pigment
Forms
- Plural
- blues → turquoises, ceruleans, sky-blues, azures…
Example sentences
- drab This morning, the world is grey and drab.
- livid The section chief was really livid. What did you do?
- dingy Lacking proper lighting, Tammy's room was depressingly dingy.
- juicy I ate lots of delicious, juicy ham last Christmas.
- gamey Have you ever eaten javelina? It's quite good, albeit somewhat gamey.
By length
- 3 letters
- low1, sad1, sky1
- 4 letters
- down1, dark1, navy2, sexy2, rude1, dull1, drab1, racy2, cyan2, glum1
- 5 letters
- adult2, dirty2, spicy2, moody2, juicy2, azure2, livid2, dingy2, gamey
- 6 letters
- gentle2, strict1, vulgar2, gloomy2, dismal2, indigo3, dreary2, impure2, bluish2, risque2, mooing, amytal
- 7 letters
- naughty2, obscene2, profane2
- 8 letters
- sapphire3, dejected3, downcast2, cerulean, blueness2
- 9 letters
- depressed2, turquoise2, patrician3, puritanic
- 10 letters
- melancholy4, despondent3, aquamarine4, dispirited4, sapphirine
- 11 letters
- blasphemous3, puritanical5, ultramarine, ithyphallic
- 12 letters
- aristocratic5, pornographic4, disconsolate
- 14 letters
- aristocratical
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (navy2 = 2 syllables).