Word Meaning

Meaning of blue

- Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.
- Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
- Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
- Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
- Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.
- Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
- One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.
- A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
- Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
- To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

Crossword clue for blue

- A colour
- Argument
- Argument with a redhead?
- Cattle dog, ... heeler
- Deep azure
- Depressed navy?
- Eye colour
- Melancholy
- Ocean hue
- Once in a ... moon
- Primary colour
- Sad about colour of Elvis' suede shoes
- Sky colour
- Snooker ball colour
- teal
- Type of cheese found by Peter and Jay