blue

adjective
blo͞o

Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.

Example

“My hands were blue with cold.”

Other meanings

Pale, without redness or glare.
“The candle burns blue.”
Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

Related words

common blue

Example sentences

“Where are all the blue markers?”
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“Was it blue or green?”
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“From time to time, they arrive out of the blue.”
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Word history

From Latin "blāvus".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “blue” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.