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