blue - Meaning in Marathi

blue - Meaning in Marathi

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Definitions and Meaning of blue in English

blue adjective

1. causing dejectionadj.all

   Examples

   • "a blue day"
   • "a dark gloomy day"
   • "a disconsolate winter landscape"
   • "a week of rainy depressing weather"
   • "grim rainy weather"
   • "the dark days of the war"
   • "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
2. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded skyadj.all

   Examples

   • "a blue flame"
   • "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
   • "October's bright blue weather"
3. characterized by profanity or cursingadj.all

   Examples

   • "blue language"
   • "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"
   • "profane words"
4. filled with melancholy and despondencyadj.all

   Examples

   • "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
   • "a gloomy silence"
   • "depressed by the loss of his job"
   • "downcast after his defeat"
   • "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
   • "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
   • "gloomy predictions"
   • "lonely and blue in a strange city"
   • "the darkening mood"
   • "took a grim view of the economy"
5. morally rigorous and strictadj.all

   Examples

   • "blue laws"
   • "puritanic distaste for alcohol"
   • "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
6. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracyadj.all

   Examples

   • "a blue family"
   • "an aristocratic family"
   • "aristocratic bearing"
   • "aristocratic Bostonians"
   • "aristocratic features"
   • "aristocratic government"
   • "blue blood"
   • "of gentle blood"
   • "patrician landholders of the American South"
   • "patrician tastes"
   • "the blue-blooded aristocracy"
7. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)adj.all

   Example

   • "a ragged blue line"
8. suggestive of sexual improprietyadj.all

   Examples

   • "a blue movie"
   • "a juicy scandal"
   • "a naughty wink"
   • "a risque story"
   • "blue jokes"
   • "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"
   • "naughty words"
   • "racy anecdotes"
   • "spicy gossip"

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