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Nouns (12)

blue

n. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

blue

n. blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"

blue

n. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"

blueness

n. blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"

Amytal, blue angel, amobarbital sodium

n. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

wild blue yonder, blue air, blue sky

n. the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"

bluing, blueing

n. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

Verbs (1)

blue

v. turn blue

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (21)

blue

adj. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"

bluish, light-blue, dark-blue

adj. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"

puritan, puritanical

adj. morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

heavyhearted, heavy-hearted

adj. depressed

green, violet

adj. "cool colors"

bawdy, ribald, off-color, off-colour

adj. humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"

gamy, gamey, naughty, juicy, spicy, racy, risque

adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"

Fuzzynyms (44)

Spartan, ascetic, ascetical, austere

adj. practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"

fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid

adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"

dejected

adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

gross, earthy, coarse

adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

blue, gamy, gamey, naughty, juicy, spicy, racy, risque

earthy, lusty, robust

adj. "gutsy four-letter words"; "a gutsy red wine"

indecent

adj. offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture"

obscene

adj. designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead

blue, bawdy, ribald, off-color, off-colour

adj. humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"

gross, earthy, coarse

indecent

adj. offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture"

obscene

adj. designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead

dirty

adj. (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"

foul, rank, vulgar, nasty, smutty

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

immodest

adj. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance

offensive, unpleasant

adj. disagreeable to the sense

Synonyms (214)

tinted

adj. having or given a shade of color; esp a pale shade; often used in combination: "amber-tinted"

touched, tinged

adj. having come into contact

amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown

adj. of a medium to dark brownish yellow color

amethyst

adj. of a moderate purple color

auburn, reddish-brown

adj. (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown; "auburn hair"

gilt, gold, golden, aureate, gilded

adj. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

avocado

adj. of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado

azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue

adj. of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather"

bay

adj. (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color

beige

adj. of a light greyish-brown color

bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome

adj. having two colors; "a bicolor flower"; "a bicolored postage stamp"

blae

adj. of bluish-black or grey-blue

blushful, rosy, blush-colored, blush-coloured

adj. of blush color; "blushful mists"

bottle-green

adj. of a dark to moderate greyish green color

bronze, bronzy

adj. of the color of bronze

brown, brownish, dark-brown

adj. of a color similar to that of wood or earth

buff

adj. of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather

canary, canary-yellow

adj. having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

caramel, caramel brown

adj. having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown

carnation

adj. pink or pinkish

chartreuse

adj. of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur

chestnut

adj. (of hair) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair"

coral

adj. of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color

creamy

adj. of the color of cream; "creamy translucent pebbles"

watercress, cresson, cress green

adj. of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green

dun

adj. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"

earth-colored, earthlike, earth-coloured

adj. earth colored; of something having a color of soil or earth; "a range of earthlike colors"

fuscous

adj. of something having a dusky brownish grey color

green, greenish, light-green, dark-green

adj. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"

hazel

adj. of a light brown or yellowish brown color

honey, honey-colored, honey-coloured

adj. having the color of honey

hued

adj. used in combination; having a given hue: "rosy-hued"

khaki

adj. of a yellowish brown color

lilac, lavender

adj. of a pale purple color

magenta

adj. of deep purplish red

maroon

adj. of dark brownish to purplish red

mauve

adj. of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, multicolour

adj. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"

mosstone, moss green

adj. of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color

mousy, mouse-colored, mouse-coloured

adj. of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-colored hair"

ocher, ochre

adj. of a moderate orange-yellow color

olive-brown

adj. of a brown color with a greenish tinge

olive-drab

adj. of a light brownish green color

olive

adj. of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

orange, orangish

adj. of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange

peacock-blue

adj. of bright greenish blue

pea-green

adj. of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color

pink, pinkish

adj. of a light shade of red

purple, violet, purplish

adj. of a color intermediate between red and blue

red, carmine, crimson, ruby, cerise, cherry, scarlet, blood-red, cherry-red, ruby-red

adj. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

red, reddish

adj. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

rose, roseate

adj. of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn"

rose-red

adj. of a deep slightly bluish red color

russet

adj. of brown with a reddish tinge

rust, rusty, rust-colored, rust-coloured

adj. having the brown color of rust

sage, sage-green

adj. of the grey-green color of sage leaves

sea-green

adj. of the color of the sea; bluish green

snuff, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-brown, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown

adj. snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown

sorrel, brownish-orange

adj. of a light brownish color

stone, stone-gray

adj. of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured

adj. having the color of dry straw

tan

adj. of a light yellowish-brown color

tangerine

adj. of a strong reddish orange color

tawny

adj. of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather

ultramarine

adj. of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color

umber

adj. of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments

vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese red

adj. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

yellow, yellowish

adj. of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

yellow-green

adj. of a color midway between yellow and green

corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal

adj. designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"

monkish

adj. befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial

renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying

adj. used especially of behavior

self-disciplined

adj. used of nonindulgent persons

Spartan, strict

adj. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing"

bittersweet

adj. tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"

depressive, gloomy, depressing, unhappy, saddening

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

melancholy, melancholic

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

pensive, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

tragic

adj. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"

tragicomic, tragicomical

adj. manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman

yearning, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

dirty-minded

adj. having lewd thoughts

foul, rank, vulgar, nasty, smutty

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

foul-mouthed, foul-spoken

adj. using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once"

lewd, indecent, obscene, salacious

adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"

scabrous

adj. dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"

scatological

adj. dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions; "scatological literature"

autoerotic

adj. sexually satisfying yourself (as by masturbation)

coquettish, flirtatious

adj. like a coquette

titillating, erotic

adj. giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing

voluptuous, juicy, luscious

adj. having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress"

lewd, lustful, lascivious, libidinous

adj. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"

lecherous

adj. given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; "a lecherous gleam in his eye"; "a lecherous good-for-nothing"

salacious, lubricious, prurient

adj. characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"

orgiastic

adj. used of frenzied sexual activity

oversexed, highly-sexed

adj. having excessive sexual desire or appeal

pornographic

adj. designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"

provocative

adj. exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"

sexed

adj. characterized by sexuality; "highly sexed"

sex-starved

adj. desiring but deprived of sexual gratification

Antonyms (0)

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