blue

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Of a blue hue.
2. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
3. Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
4. Pale, without redness or glare.
5. (US) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
6. (Australian) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
7. (UK) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
8. Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
9. (particle) Having a colour charge of blue.
10. Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
11. Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
12. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
13. (archaic) Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.
14. (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
15. (dated, slang) Drunk.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
2. (countable, uncountable) Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
3. (countable, uncountable) A blue dye or pigment.
4. (uncountable) Blue clothing.
5. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Blue clothing.
6. (countable, uncountable) Blue clothing.
7. (countable, slang, uncountable) Blue clothing.
8. (countable, uncountable) Blue clothing.
9. (countable, uncountable) Blue clothing.
10. (countable, slang, uncountable) Blue clothing.
11. (countable, historical, uncountable) Blue clothing.
12. (countable, uncountable) The sky, literally or figuratively.
13. (countable, uncountable) The ocean; deep waters.
14. (countable, uncountable) The far distance; a remote or distant place.
15. (countable, uncountable) A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
16. (countable, uncountable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
17. (countable, uncountable) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
18. (countable, uncountable) A bluefish.
19. (Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable) An argument or brawl.
20. (countable, uncountable) A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
21. (countable, uncountable) Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
22. (British, countable, uncountable) A type of firecracker.
23. (countable, particle, uncountable) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
24. (UK, countable, uncountable) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
25. (countable, uncountable) A blue cheese.
26. (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.

Verb

1. (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
2. (transitive) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
3. (transitive) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
4. (Australia, intransitive, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.

Verb

To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

Concepts

bleu

bleue

bleuter

vert

bleus

bleuir

aristocratique

blues

azur

triste

☹️

déprimé

piquant

puritain

rose

🌹

sombre

bleu indigo

décourageant

démoralisé

déprimant

juteux

risqué

couleur bleue

azurer

couleur terre

gris-bleu

blue angel

blue air

abattu

bloe

bas

bleuâtre

bleues

bleuté

ciel

cyan

érotique

morne

morose

pâle

Synonymes

green

azure

gloomy

depressed

sad

☹️

grim

dispirited

black

disconsolate

downhearted

dark

low-spirited

dismal

grey

downcast

down

cerulean

gamy

heavyhearted

gamey

gray

low

unhappy

☹️

bruised

very blue

bluish

blue devil

blue air

blue-blooded

indigo

blue sky

blue angel

risque

melancholic

melancholy

blueing

blueness

purple

down in the mouth

turquoise

bluing

juicy

bluecoat

light blue

aristocratic

brown

dirty

dingy

dim

depressing

Traductions

azul

blau

blu

azzurro

blauw

azul

blau

mavi

Blau

caeruleus

μπλε

celeste

γαλάζιος

γαλανός

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bluː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: blewe

Appartenant à écossais: blue

Appartenant à frison septentrional: bla

Appartenant à saterlandais: blau

Appartenant à néerlandais: blauw

Appartenant à allemand: blau

Appartenant à danois: -

Appartenant à norvégien: -

Appartenant à suédois: blå

Appartenant à islandais: blár

Appartenant à latin: flāvus

Appartenant à moyen irlandais: blá

Appartenant à ancien anglais: blēo

Appartenant à ancien anglais: blāw

Appartenant à ancien anglais: blǣwen

In summary

From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”), 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 and Swedish blå (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), French bleu (“blue”), Middle Irish blá (“yellow”). Doublet of blow.
Possibly related also to English blee (“colour”), from Old English blēo (“colour”); but direct derivatives of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”) in Old English include: Old English blāw and blēo (“blue”), Old English blǣwen (“bluish, light-blue”), blǣhǣwen (“blue-coloured, bluish, violet or purple colour”, literally “blue-hued”). There seems to be a parallel connection in Germanic between words for blue and colour, dually exemplified by Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“colour, blee”) and *blāu (“blue”); and Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“colour, hue”) and *hēwijaz (“blue, purple”).
The sense "obscene, pornographic" is apparently from the colour; various theories exist as to how it arose, including that it is from the colour of the envelopes used to contain missives of the censors and managers to vaudevillian performers on objectionable material from their acts that needed to be excised.

Phrases

A child is looking through a pretend telescope on playground equipment in front of a blue sky .

Un enfant regarde à travers un télescope de prétendent sur l'équipement de l'aire de jeux devant un ciel bleu.

The gum was packaged in a red , white , and blue color scheme .

La gomme était emballée dans une palette de couleurs rouge, blanche et bleue.

A young girl in a blue and green jacket is sledding .

Une jeune fille dans une veste bleue et verte est de la luge.