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Synonyms for blue

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  1. One of the primary colors

    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

    depressed, moody, melancholy; see sad 1.

once in a blue moon

noun

  1. One of the primary colors

    blueness, bluing, azure, sky blue; see blue (modif.) 1, color 1.

  2. Heavens

    sky, vault of the sky, ether, the wild blue yonder*; see heaven 1, sky, space 1.

out of the blue

unforeseen, surprising, sudden, unanticipated; see unexpected.

See blue in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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