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Synonyms & Antonyms of blue
(Entry 1 of 2)
- was shocked at the blue banter on that satellite-radio talk show
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- priggish,
- prim,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- staid,
- straitlaced
- (or straightlaced),
- Victorian
- approved,
- endorsed
- (also indorsed),
- sanctioned
Antonyms for blue
- a cold, dreary day always leaves me blue
Synonyms for blue
- bad,
- brokenhearted,
- cast down,
- crestfallen,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- doleful,
- down,
- down in the mouth,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- droopy,
- forlorn,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- hangdog,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- heavyhearted,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
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- a lighthearted comedy with a few moments of blue humor
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- priggish,
- prim,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- staid,
- straitlaced
- (or straightlaced),
- Victorian
- a book club that had been founded many years earlier by the blue, progressive women of the city
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- middlebrow
- erudite,
- learned,
- literate,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath
- (or polymathic),
- scholarly,
- well-read
- academic
- (also academical),
- bookish,
- professorial
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blue
nounSynonyms of blue (Entry 2 of 2)
- pirate ships that sailed the vasty blue in search of treasure
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“Blue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue. Accessed 19 Jan. 2021.
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The first known use of blue was in the 13th century
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