Englishئاساسىي لۇغەت
blue
Universal Words
adjective, noun
adjective (bluer, bluest)
1 having the colour of a clear sky or the sea/ocean on a clear day:
piercing blue eyes * a blue shirt
2 (of a person or part of the body) looking slightly blue in colour because the person is cold or cannot breathe easily:
Her hands were blue with cold.
3 (informal) sad; depressed:
He'd been feeling blue all week.
4 films/movies, jokes or stories that are blue are about sex:
a blue movie
seealsoTRUE-BLUE
blueness noun [U,sing.]:
the blueness of the water
IDIOMS
sb's blue-eyed boy (BrE, informal, often disapproving) a person treated with special favour by sb:
He's the manager's blue-eyed boy.
do sth till you are blue in the face (informal) to try to do sth as hard and as long as you possibly can but without success:
You can argue till you're blue in the face, but you won't change my mind.
moreatBLACKadj., DEVIL, ONCEadv., SCREAMv.
noun-see also BLUES
1 [C,U] the colour of a clear sky or the sea/ocean on a clear day:
bright / dark / light / pale blue * The room was decorated in vibrant blues and yellows. * She was dressed in blue.
2 (BrE) a person who has played a particular sport for Oxford or Cambridge University; a title given to them:
He's an Oxford rugby blue. * She won a blue for rowing.
IDIOMS
out of the blue unexpectedly; without warning:
His resignation came right out of the blue.
moreatBOLTn., BOYn.
