blue

adjective

Related

Derived from bleu

Derivations grue

Derivations ブルー

Compounds

In compounds

blue wildebeest

Forms

positive : blue
comparative : bluer
superlative : bluest

Senses

color between green and purple in the rainbow, associated with the sky and deep sea

1719: He had no clothes on but a seaman’s waistcoat, a pair of open-kneed linen drawers, and a blue linen shirt; but nothing to direct me so much as to guess what nation he was of.
[The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself...]

state of being sad
characterized as the color blue

blue

noun

Related

Derivations blues

Forms

singular : blue
plural : blues

Senses

blue

verb

Forms

simple present : blue
simple present, singular, third person : blues
simple past : blued
present participle : blueing
past participle : blued

Senses