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Results for: "blue"

Translating from English to Chinese Traditional

Translations:

blue — of the colour blue
→ 藍色 (lánsè)
→ 藍 (lán)
blue — the colour blue
→ 藍色 (lánsè)
blue — sad, depressed
→ 憂鬱 (yōuyù)
→ 沮喪 (jǔsàng)

More translations:

blue
→ 藍色
blue
→ 沮喪的
blue
→ 天藍色
blue
→ 藍顏料
blue
→ 藍天；碧海

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (7)

1. blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime;
- Example: "he had eyes of bright blue"
[syn: blue, blueness]

2. blue clothing;
- Example: "she was wearing blue"

3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue;
- Example: "the Union army was a vast blue"

4. the sky as viewed during daylight;
- Example: "he shot an arrow into the blue"
[syn: blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder]

5. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge;
[syn: bluing, blueing, blue]

6. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic;
[syn: amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal]

7. any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae;


VERB (1)

1. turn blue;


ADJECTIVE (8)

1. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky;
- Example: "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson
- Example: "a blue flame"
- Example: "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
[syn: blue, bluish, blueish]

2. used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms);
- Example: "a ragged blue line"

3. filled with melancholy and despondency ;
- Example: "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
- Example: "gloomy predictions"
- Example: "a gloomy silence"
- Example: "took a grim view of the economy"
- Example: "the darkening mood"
- Example: "lonely and blue in a strange city"
- Example: "depressed by the loss of his job"
- Example: "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
- Example: "downcast after his defeat"
- Example: "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
[syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]

4. characterized by profanity or cursing;
- Example: "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"
- Example: "blue language"
- Example: "profane words"
[syn: blasphemous, blue, profane]

5. suggestive of sexual impropriety;
- Example: "a blue movie"
- Example: "blue jokes"
- Example: "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"
- Example: "a juicy scandal"
- Example: "a naughty wink"
- Example: "naughty words"
- Example: "racy anecdotes"
- Example: "a risque story"
- Example: "spicy gossip"
[syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy]

6. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy;
- Example: "an aristocratic family"
- Example: "aristocratic Bostonians"
- Example: "aristocratic government"
- Example: "a blue family"
- Example: "blue blood"
- Example: "the blue-blooded aristocracy"
- Example: "of gentle blood"
- Example: "patrician landholders of the American South"
- Example: "aristocratic bearing"
- Example: "aristocratic features"
- Example: "patrician tastes"
[syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician]

7. morally rigorous and strict;
- Example: "the puritan work ethic"
- Example: "puritanic distaste for alcohol"
- Example: "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
[syn: blue(a), puritanic, puritanical]

8. causing dejection;
- Example: "a blue day"
- Example: "the dark days of the war"
- Example: "a week of rainy depressing weather"
- Example: "a disconsolate winter landscape"
- Example: "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
- Example: "a dark gloomy day"
- Example: "grim rainy weather"
[syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]