blue
/blu/ adjective A1- Of a blue hue. · the deep blue sea· Why is the sky blue?
- Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- 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.· The divers got them out of the car just in time – they were starting to turn blue.
- Pale, without redness or glare. · The candle burns blue.
- Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party. · I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
- Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party. · Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
- Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Having a colour charge of blue.
Comparative bluer · Superlative bluest
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It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons, and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table.
“Everything is green here, while in the country of the Munchkins blue was the favorite color.
There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy’s eyes.
“‘Blue paint is just the color for eyes.’
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