blue
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- azure, cerulean, cobalt, cyan, navy, sapphire, sky-coloured, ultramarine
- depressed, dejected, despondent, downcast, low, melancholy, sad, unhappy
- smutty, indecent, lewd, obscene, risqué, X-rated (informal)

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Blue, Rabbi Li‧o‧nel /ˈlaɪənəl/
(1930–) a Jewish religious leader in the UK, known for telling humorous stories on the radio. He is the first openly gay British rabbi.

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I. blue¹ S1 W2 /bluː/ adjective
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: blou]

1. having the colour of the sky or the sea on a fine day ⇒ navy, navy blue:
the blue waters of the lake
dark/light/pale/bright blue
a dark blue raincoat

2. [not before noun] informal sad and without hope Synonym : depressed:
I’ve been feeling kind of blue.

3. informal blue jokes, stories etc are about sex, in a way that might offend some people ⇒ blue movie

4. argue/talk etc till you’re blue in the face informal to argue, talk etc about something a lot, but without achieving what you want:
You can tell them till you’re blue in the face, but they’ll still do what they want.

5. blue with cold especially British English someone who is blue with cold looks extremely cold

6. go blue British English if someone goes blue, their skin becomes blue because they are cold or cannot breathe properly

7. talk a blue streak American English informal to talk very quickly without stopping
—blueness noun [uncountable]
⇒ black and blue, ⇒ once in a blue moon at once¹(15), ⇒ scream blue murder at scream¹(1)

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II. blue² noun

1. [uncountable and countable] the colour of the sky or the sea on a fine day:
She nearly always dresses in blue.
the rich greens and blues of the tapestry

2. blues (also the blues) [uncountable] a slow sad style of music that came from the southern US:
a blues singer ⇒ rhythm and blues

3. the blues [plural] informal feelings of sadness:
A lot of women get the blues after the baby is born.

4. out of the blue informal if something happens out of the blue, it is very unexpected ⇒ a bolt from/out of the blue at bolt¹(3)

5. Blue [countable] British English someone who has represented Oxford or Cambridge University at a sport, or the title given to such a person

6. the blue literary the sea or the sky ⇒ boys in blue at boy¹(9)

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blue
adj.
ADV. very | quite, slightly
ADJ. dark, deep, rich | light, pale | bright, brilliant, vivid a brilliant blue sky her vivid blue eyes
cobalt, navy, royal, slate a navy blue jumper
 ⇒ Special page at COLOUR

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blue
blu:
See: between the devil and the deep blue sea , bolt from the blue , once in a blue moon , out of the blue or out of a clear blue sky

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