Definition of blue

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• blue is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
• blue is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
• blue is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9

Definition of blue

• of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky (adjective)

  Examples

  1. October's bright blue weather
  2. a blue flame
  3. blue haze of tobacco smoke

  Synonyms

  1. blueish
  2. bluish
• morally rigorous and strict (adjective)

  Examples

  1. blue laws

  Synonyms

  1. puritanic
  2. puritanical
• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime (noun)

  Examples

  1. he had eyes of bright blue

  Synonyms

  1. blueness
• causing dejection (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a blue day

  Synonyms

  1. dark
  2. dingy
  3. disconsolate
  4. dismal
  5. drab
  6. drear
  7. dreary
  8. gloomy
  9. grim
  10. sorry
• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. amobarbital sodium
  2. amytal
  3. blue angel
  4. blue devil
• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a blue family
  2. blue blood
  3. the blue-blooded aristocracy

  Synonyms

  1. aristocratic
  2. aristocratical
  3. blue-blooded
  4. gentle
  5. patrician
• suggestive of sexual impropriety (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a blue movie
  2. blue jokes

  Synonyms

  1. gamey
  2. gamy
  3. juicy
  4. naughty
  5. racy
  6. risque
  7. spicy
• filled with melancholy and despondency (adjective)

  Examples

  1. lonely and blue in a strange city

  Synonyms

  1. depressed
  2. dispirited
  3. down
  4. down in the mouth
  5. downcast
  6. downhearted
  7. gloomy
  8. grim
  9. low
  10. low-spirited
• the sky as viewed during daylight (noun)

  Examples

  1. he shot an arrow into the blue

  Synonyms

  1. blue air
  2. blue sky
  3. wild blue yonder
• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. blueing
  2. bluing
• characterized by profanity or cursing (adjective)

  Examples

  1. blue language

  Synonyms

  1. blasphemous
  2. profane
• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae (noun)
• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue (noun)

  Examples

  1. the Union army was a vast blue
• blue clothing (noun)

  Examples

  1. she was wearing blue
• turn blue (verb)
• used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a ragged blue line

See definition of blue in Merriam Webster