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How to pronounce blue in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blueish, bluish
Derivation blueness


October's bright blue weather.
a blue flame.
blue haze of tobacco smoke.
Type Words
Synonyms puritanic, puritanical


blue laws.
Type Words
Synonyms blueness
Type of spectral colour, spectral color, chromatic colour, chromatic color
Has types turquoise, ultramarine, greenish blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, cerulean, cobalt blue, dark blue, lazuline, navy, navy blue, peacock blue, powder blue, prussian blue, purplish blue, royal blue, sapphire, sky-blue, steel blue


he had eyes of bright blue.
Type Words
Synonyms dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry


a blue day.
Type Words
Synonyms amobarbital sodium, amytal, blue angel, blue devil
Type of amobarbital
Type Words
Synonyms aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician


a blue family.
blue blood.
the blue-blooded aristocracy.
Type Words
Synonyms gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy


a blue movie.
blue jokes.
Type Words
Synonyms depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited


lonely and blue in a strange city.
Type Words
Synonyms blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder
Type of sky


he shot an arrow into the blue.
Type Words
Synonyms blueing, bluing
Type of dye, dyestuff
Type Words
Synonyms blasphemous, profane


blue language.
Type Words
Type of lycaenid butterfly, lycaenid
Type Words
Type of organization, organisation
Has types union army


the Union army was a vast blue.
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Type of habiliment, article of clothing, wearable, wear, clothing, vesture


she was wearing blue.
Type Words
Type of discolor, discolour, colour, color
Derivation bluing
Type Words


a ragged blue line.

Examples of blue

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Of the woman's clothing, detectives focused most on her blue hooded sweat shirt.
From the sacbee.com
Succulents, with their blue-green chunky leaves, are among McCreary's favorites.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The blue crab has a delicate texture and sweet meat and is harvested year round.
From the orlandosentinel.com
She now peeks under the folds to see who is wearing red and who is wearing blue.
From the washingtontimes.com
Without a great flash, most underwater pictures will be dominated by blue tones.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Windows were added to the top part of the building, which was then painted blue.
From the kentucky.com
You should be able to put on a real pair of blue jeans when you leave the house.
From the courier-journal.com
When electricity flows down these charger cords, blue lights move down the cord.
From the cnn.com
Cardenas wore a black jacket, white shirt and an argyle scarf of blue and green.
From the sacbee.com
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  • Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
  • 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"
  • Turn blue
  • Blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
  • Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
  • Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
  • Blue is the colour between violet and green on the optical spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive blue when observing light with a wavelength between 450 and 495 nanometres. Blues with a higher frequency and thus a shorter wavelength gradually look more violet, while those with a lower frequency and a longer wavelength gradually appear more green...
  • The Kalvertoren, a shopping center in Amsterdam, is located on Kalverstraat, Amsterdam's busiest shopping street.
  • Blue is the twelfth and final feature film by director Derek Jarman, released just four months before his death by AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film's release.