Of a color intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day

• - the clear blue sky

• - blue jeans

• - deep blue eyes

(of a person's skin) Having or turning such a color, esp. with cold or breathing difficulties

• - Annie went blue, and I panicked

(of a bird or other animal) Having blue markings

• - a blue jay

(of cats, foxes, or rabbits) Having fur of a smoky gray color

• - the blue fox

(of a ski run) Of the second lowest level of difficulty, as indicated by colored markers positioned along it

Denoting one of three colors of quark

(of a person or mood) Melancholy, sad, or depressed

• - he's feeling blue

(of a movie, joke, or story) With sexual or pornographic content

• - the blue movies are hugely profitable

(of language) Marked by cursing, swearing, and blasphemy

Rigidly religious or moralistic; puritanical