blue

ADJECTIVENOUNVERB /blu/
4 LETTERS · 1 SYLLABLE · STARTS WITH B

blue is a valid 4-letter word worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
B3L1U1E1
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 =6 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 12TRIPLE WORD → 18
MEANING

What does blue mean?

ADJECTIVE · 8 SENSES
1

Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.

“October's bright blue weather”

“a blue flame”

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2

Characterized by profanity or cursing.

“blue language”

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3

Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms).

“a ragged blue line”

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4

Morally rigorous and strict.

“blue laws”

6

Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy.

“a blue family”

“blue blood”

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7

Suggestive of sexual impropriety.

“a blue movie”

“blue jokes”

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8

Filled with melancholy and despondency.

“lonely and blue in a strange city”

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NOUN · 7 SENSES
1

Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge.

2

Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

3

Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue.

“the Union army was a vast blue”

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4

Blue clothing.

“she was wearing blue”

5

Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime.

“he had eyes of bright blue”

SYNONYMS
6

The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic.

7

The sky as viewed during daylight.

“he shot an arrow into the blue”

BROADER
VERB · 1 SENSE
1

Turn blue.

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Anagrams of blue

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