Synonyms of the word

blue

• adj. Of the colour blue.
• adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
• adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
• adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented…
• adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant…
• adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
• adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
• adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
• adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
• adj. (comedy) Risque or obscene.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the…
• n. A blue dye or pigment.
• n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
• n. Blue clothing.
• n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
• n. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
• n. The sky, literally or figuratively.
• n. The ocean; deep waters.
• n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
• n. Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatini in the family Lycaenidae.
• n. A bluefish.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
• n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
• n. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
• n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• v. (ergative) To make or become blue.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes…
• v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
• v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
• adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.

amobarbital

• n. A barbiturate derivative, a bitter-tasting odourless white powder with sedative-hypnotic and analgesic…

aristocratic

• adj. Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men.
• adj. Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with, the aristocracy.

aristocratical

• adj. (politics) Aristocratic.

blasphemous

• adj. Lacking piety or respect for the sacred. Resembling blasphemy.

blue-blooded

• adj. aristocratic or patrician.

blueing

• v. present participle of blue.
• n. An indigo material used as a laundry aid to counteract yellowing.

blueish

• adj. Alternative spelling of bluish.

blueness

• n. The state or quality of being blue.

bluing

• v. present participle of blue.
• n. A substance used in laundry to whiten clothes; blue.
• n. Any of several processes to protect steel against rust.

bluish

• adj. Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue.
• adj. (figuratively) Somewhat depressed; sad.

cheerless

• adj. devoid of cheer; gloomy.

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

clothing

• v. present participle of clothe.
• n. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination…
• n. An act or instance of putting clothes on.
• n. (obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
• n. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation…

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

dejected

• adj. Sad and dispirited.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of deject.

depressed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of depress.
• adj. unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent.
• adj. Suffering from clinical depression.
• adj. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

depressing

• adj. Causing depression or sadness.
• adj. Causing a reduction in economic activity.
• v. present participle of depress.

dingy

• adj. drab; shabby; dirty; squalid.
• n. Alternative form of dinghy.

dirty

• adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
• adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
• adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
• adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
• adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
• adj. Out of tune.
• adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
• adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
• adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
• adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
• adv. In a dirty manner.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
• v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
• v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

discolor

• v. (American) To change or lose color.

discolour

• v. (British spelling, Canadian, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of discolor (US).

disconsolate

• adj. Cheerless, dreary.
• adj. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
• n. (obsolete) Disconsolateness.

dismal

• adj. Disappointingly inadequate.
• adj. Gloomy and bleak.
• adj. Depressing.

dispirited

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dispirit.
• adj. Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

dispiriting

• adj. Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
• v. present participle of dispirit.

down

• n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland.
• n. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
• n. (Britain, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered…
• n. (slang, rare, countable) A penis.
• adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
• adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path.
• adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
• adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
• adv. Into a state of non-operation.
• adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
• adv. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
• adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
• adv. (Britain, academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
• adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
• adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
• adv. From less to greater detail.
• adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
• adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather…
• prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
• prep. From one end to another of.
• adj. Depressed, feeling low.
• adj. At a lower level than before.
• adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
• adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
• adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to.
• adj. (not comparable, US, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
• adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
• adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled…
• adj. (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
• adj. (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down,…
• adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.).
• adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
• v. (transitive) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid…
• v. (transitive) To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
• v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
• v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while…
• v. (transitive) To write off; to make fun of.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend.
• n. A negative aspect; a downer.
• n. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
• n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
• n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle…
• n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
• n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
• n. Down payment.
• n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping…
• n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as…
• n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
• n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
• v. (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

downcast

• adj. (of eyes) Looking downwards.
• adj. (of a person) Feeling despondent.
• n. (computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
• n. (obsolete) A melancholy look.
• n. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw down; to turn downward.
• v. (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.

downhearted

• adj. sad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope.

drab

• adj. Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
• n. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
• n. The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
• n. A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• n. (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
• n. (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
• n. A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• v. (obsolete) To consort with prostitutes.

drear

• adj. (poetic) Dreary.
• n. (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.

dreary

• adj. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
• adj. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

dye

• n. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
• v. (transitive) to colour with dye.
• n. Alternative spelling of die.

dyestuff

• n. Any soluble pigment used for dyeing the hair, fabric etc.

gamey

• adj. Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat).
• adj. Plucky, spirited or gritty.
• adj. Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive.

gamy

• adj. Alternative spelling of gamey.

gentle

• adj. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
• adj. Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
• adj. Docile and easily managed.
• adj. Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
• adj. Polite and respectful rather than rude.
• adj. (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
• v. (intransitive) to become gentle.
• v. (transitive) to ennoble.
• v. (transitive, animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate.
• v. (transitive) To soothe; to calm.
• n. (archaic) A person of high birth.
• n. (archaic) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
• n. A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

gloomy

• adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
• adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

habiliment

• n. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
• n. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

juicy

• adj. Having lots of juice.
• adj. (of a story, etc.) Exciting; titillating.
• adj. (of a blow, strike, etc.) Strong, painful.

low

• adj. In a position comparatively close to the ground.
• adj. Small in height.
• adj. Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
• adj. Depressed, sad.
• adj. Not high in amount or quantity.
• adj. Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
• adj. Quiet; soft; not loud.
• adj. Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.
• adj. Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.
• adj. Being near the equator.
• adj. Humble in character or status.
• adj. Simple in complexity or development.
• adj. Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
• adj. Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
• adj. (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
• adj. (archaic) Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.
• n. Something that is low; a low point.
• n. A depressed mood or situation.
• n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
• n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
• n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
• n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
• adv. Close to the ground.
• adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
• adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
• adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
• adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
• adv. In a time approaching our own.
• adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
• v. obsolete simple past tense of laugh.
• v. (intransitive) To moo.
• n. (countable, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
• n. (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
• n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.

low-spirited

• adj. Disheartened.

lycaenid

• n. A member of the taxonomic family Lycaenidae.

naughty

• adj. Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
• adj. Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.
• adj. (now rare, archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
• adj. (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.

noble

• n. An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
• n. (now historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s…
• adj. Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in…
• adj. Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
• adj. Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title;…
• adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Both isohedral and isogonal.

nonindulgent

• adj. Not indulgent.

northern

• adj. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north.
• adj. (of a wind) Blowing from the north; northerly.
• adj. (Britain) Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised).
• n. (fishing) The northern pike.
• n. (capitalised) The Northern Line of the London Underground.

organisation

• n. British spelling standard spelling of organization.

organization

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
• n. (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
• n. (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
• n. (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
• n. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

patrician

• n. (antiquity) A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens,…
• n. A person of high birth; a nobleman.
• n. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the Roman patres ("fathers") or senators, or patricians.
• adj. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

puritan

• n. (often disapproving): a puritanical person.
• adj. (often disapproving): acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially…

puritanic

• adj. Archaic form of puritanical.

puritanical

• adj. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
• adj. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; — often used…
• n. One who holds puritanical attitudes.

racy

• adj. Mildly risqué, exciting.
• adj. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence,…
• adj. Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar…

risque

• adj. (US) Alternative form of risqué.
• n. Obsolete spelling of risk.

sexy

• adj. (of a person) Having sexual appeal; suggestive of sex.
• adj. That can sexually attract or arouse.
• adj. (of a thing or concept) interesting, attractive or appealing.
• adj. (rare, slang) Sexual.
• adj. (mathematics) Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six.

sky

• n. (obsolete) A cloud.
• n. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
• n. The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate…
• n. Heaven.
• v. (sports) To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
• v. (colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well…
• v. (colloquial) To drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container.

sorry

• adj. (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
• adj. Poor, sad or regrettable.
• interj. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
• interj. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
• interj. Used to correct oneself in speech.
• n. The act of saying sorry; an apology.

spicy

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
• adj. (of flavors) Provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of chillies or similar hot spices.
• adj. (of flavors or odors) Tangy, zesty, or pungent.
• adj. (of expression or behavior) Vigorous; colorful; stimulating.
• adj. Risqué, sexy, racy; mildly pornographic.

strict

• adj. Strained; drawn close; tight.
• adj. Tense; not relaxed.
• adj. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice.
• adj. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
• adj. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
• adj. (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
• adj. Severe in discipline.

uncheerful

• adj. Not cheerful.

vesture

• n. A covering of or like clothing.
• v. (archaic) To clothe.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.

wearable

• adj. Able to be worn.
• n. Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.
• n. (computing) Clipping of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).