Scrabble & Words with friends points
- blue is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
- blue is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
- blue is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9
Definition of blue
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky (adjective)
Examples
- October's bright blue weather
- a blue flame
- blue haze of tobacco smoke
Synonyms
- blueish
- bluish
- morally rigorous and strict (adjective)
Examples
- blue laws
Synonyms
- puritanic
- puritanical
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime (noun)
Examples
- he had eyes of bright blue
Synonyms
- blueness
- causing dejection (adjective)
Examples
- a blue day
Synonyms
- dark
- dingy
- disconsolate
- dismal
- drab
- drear
- dreary
- gloomy
- grim
- sorry
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic (noun)
Synonyms
- amobarbital sodium
- amytal
- blue angel
- blue devil
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy (adjective)
Examples
- a blue family
- blue blood
- the blue-blooded aristocracy
Synonyms
- aristocratic
- aristocratical
- blue-blooded
- gentle
- patrician
- suggestive of sexual impropriety (adjective)
Examples
- a blue movie
- blue jokes
Synonyms
- gamey
- gamy
- juicy
- naughty
- racy
- risque
- spicy
- filled with melancholy and despondency (adjective)
Examples
- lonely and blue in a strange city
Synonyms
- depressed
- dispirited
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- gloomy
- grim
- low
- low-spirited
- the sky as viewed during daylight (noun)
Examples
- he shot an arrow into the blue
Synonyms
- blue air
- blue sky
- wild blue yonder
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge (noun)
Synonyms
- blueing
- bluing
- characterized by profanity or cursing (adjective)
Examples
- blue language
Synonyms
- blasphemous
- profane
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae (noun)
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue (noun)
Examples
- the Union army was a vast blue
- blue clothing (noun)
Examples
- she was wearing blue
- turn blue (verb)
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) (adjective)
Examples
- a ragged blue line
See definition of blue in Merriam Webster