blue

CEFRA1

/bluː/

noun · adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Having the color of a clear sky.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Depressed, melancholic, sad.

Examples

  • I got it wrong. It wasn't the red one but the blue one.

  • You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you'll never convince me.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /bljuː/
  • /blʉ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

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

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Of a blue hue.

  2. Pale, without redness or glare.

More examples

In context

  • The sky is blue.

  • He was wearing a blue t-shirt.

  • Why is the sky blue?

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Origin

noun

From Middle English blew, blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew, from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”), Scots blue, blew (“blue”), North Frisian bla, blö (“blue”), Saterland Frisian blau (“blue”), Dutch blauw (“blue”), German blau (“blue”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blå (“blue”), Faroese bláur (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), French bleu (“blue”...