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noun
The quality or characteristic of being blue in color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Melancholy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: blues, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: blue
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
Narrower terms: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue, powder blue, steel blue, Prussian blue, dark blue, navy, navy blue, greenish blue, aqua, aquamarine, turquoise, cobalt blue, peacock blue, purplish blue, royal blue, ultramarine
History
From blue + -ness.
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
