- blue
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)adj. azure, indigo, sapphire (see color); delft; severe, puritanical; sad, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downhearted; risqué, profane. See impurity, dejection.Ant., happy.II(Roget's IV) modif.1. [One of the primary colors]Syn. of the color of the sky, azure, cerulean, sky-blue.Hues of blue include: indigo, watchet, sapphire, sapphirine, turquoise, smalt, lapis lazuli, aquamarine, aqua, blue-black, blue-green; royal, PRussian, navy, Dumont's, king's, starch, powder, baby, Paris, cobalt, Antwerp, Haarlem, mineral, Parma, Napoleon, Chinese, robin's egg, pale, teal, sky, slate, light, dark, deep, livid, electric, etc., blue.2. [*Despondent]Syn. depressed, moody, melancholy; see sad 1 .• once in a blue moon,Syn. rarely, infrequently, once in a while; see seldom .n.1. [One of the primary colors]Syn. blueness, bluing, azure, sky blue; see blue ( modif. ) 1 , color 1 .2. [Heavens]• out of the blue,Syn. unforeseen, surprising, sudden, unanticipated; see unexpected .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.color sky-blue, cobalt, azure, ultramarine, indigo, slate, navy, aquamarine, turquoise, lapis lazuli, royal, powder, electric, robin's egg.2. mood down, melancholy, depressed, sad, despondent, downhearted, down in the dumps.IV(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. In low spirits: dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idiom: down at (or in) the mouth. See HAPPY. 2. Dark and depressing: black, bleak, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See HAPPY, LIGHT. 3. Tending to cause sadness or low spirits: cheerless, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, joyless, melancholy, sad. See HAPPY. 4. Bordering on indelicacy or impropriety: earthy, off-color, provocative, racy, risque, salty, scabrous, spicy, suggestive. See DECENT.
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