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adj
noun
verb
adj
- of or relating to manic depressive illness
- of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions
- having two poles
- (physics) Relating to a bipole.
- Relating to both polar regions.
- Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
- (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
- Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.
noun
noun
- a state of depression
- a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- plural of blue
- (music, in the singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
- (informal, in the singular or in the plural) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- (informal, in the singular or in the plural) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
- (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
- (music) A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
- (drugs, slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.
- A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
verb
noun
- a state of depression
- Chiefly preceded by the: depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
- plural of megrim
- (veterinary medicine) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers.
noun
- A state of depression.
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
verb
adj
- caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition
- of or relating to the practice of pathology
- caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
- (computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.
- (mathematics) Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.
- (medicine) Relating to, amounting to, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.
- (medicine) Pertaining to pathology.
adj
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Unhappy; despondent.
- (mathematics) Reduced to a lower degree or form.
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
- lower than previously
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
verb
noun
- (slang) A drug that has depressant qualities.
- (slang) Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
- A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work.
- (slang) A negative drug trip.
- A livestock animal that has collapsed.
- a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
adj
noun
verb
noun
adj
name
- Depression (especially suicidal).
- Gout.
- Football (soccer) hooliganism.
- Gambling.
- Syphilis.
- Laziness; low motivation.
- Bronchitis.
- Haemophilia.
- Sweating sickness.
- Hypochondria.
- Poor industrial relations and the resulting economic weakness.
- Tuberculosis.
- Rickets.
- Masochism, especially a fondness for flagellation.
- Homosexuality.
verb
noun
- an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
verb
- make a depression into
- cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
- notch the edge of or make jagged
- bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
- set in from the margin
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (military, India, Singapore, dated elsewhere) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
noun
- an order for goods to be exported or imported
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
noun
adj
adv
verb
noun
- a symptom caused by an illness or a drug
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an outward appearance
- an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
- (of a law) having legal validity
- (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
- Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- (sciences) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
- (cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- The result or outcome of a cause.
- Execution; performance; realization; operation.
- (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
- (sciences, statistics) An influence or causal association between two variables.
- Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
- (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
verb
noun
- (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
- (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- state of violent mental agitation
noun
- a state of depression or agitation
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
verb
adj
- causing dejection
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
noun
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and 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.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
verb
- turn blue
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
adj
- causing dejection
- showing a brooding ill humor
- (used of color) having a dark hue
- brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
- not giving performances; closed
- secret
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
- (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
- (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- (of a source of light) Extinguished.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
noun
- absence of light or illumination
- the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- an unenlightened state
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- (uncountable) Ignorance.
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
- The color of this fabric.
- A small amount, especially of money.
- (chiefly transgender slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (most commonly a trans woman dressed as a man).
- Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
- A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
- A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
adj
- causing dejection
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
- harshly ironic or sinister
- Ghastly or sinister.
- Rigid and unrelenting.
- Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
- Disgusting; gross.
verb
adj
- causing dejection
- bad; unfortunate
- without merit; of little or no value or use
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
- (of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- (of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
intj
noun
verb
noun
- a state of depression
- a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- plural of blue
- (music, in the singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
- (informal, in the singular or in the plural) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- (informal, in the singular or in the plural) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
- (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
- (music) A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
- (drugs, slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.
- A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
verb
noun
- a state of depression
- Chiefly preceded by the: depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
- plural of megrim
- (veterinary medicine) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers.
noun
- A state of depression.
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
verb
noun
- (slang) A drug that has depressant qualities.
- (slang) Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
- A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work.
- (slang) A negative drug trip.
- A livestock animal that has collapsed.
- a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
noun
adj
noun
adj
adv
verb
noun
- a symptom caused by an illness or a drug
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an outward appearance
- an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
- (of a law) having legal validity
- (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
- Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- (sciences) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
- (cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- The result or outcome of a cause.
- Execution; performance; realization; operation.
- (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
- (sciences, statistics) An influence or causal association between two variables.
- Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
- (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
verb
noun
- (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
- (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- state of violent mental agitation
noun
- a state of depression or agitation
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
verb
verb
noun
- an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
verb
- make a depression into
- cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
- notch the edge of or make jagged
- bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
- set in from the margin
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (military, India, Singapore, dated elsewhere) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
noun
- an order for goods to be exported or imported
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- of or relating to manic depressive illness
- of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions
- having two poles
- (physics) Relating to a bipole.
- Relating to both polar regions.
- Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
- (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
- Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.
noun
adj
- caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition
- of or relating to the practice of pathology
- caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
- (computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.
- (mathematics) Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.
- (medicine) Relating to, amounting to, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.
- (medicine) Pertaining to pathology.
adj
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Unhappy; despondent.
- (mathematics) Reduced to a lower degree or form.
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
- lower than previously
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- causing dejection
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
noun
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and 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.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
verb
- turn blue
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
adj
- causing dejection
- showing a brooding ill humor
- (used of color) having a dark hue
- brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
- not giving performances; closed
- secret
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
- (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
- (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- (of a source of light) Extinguished.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
noun
- absence of light or illumination
- the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- an unenlightened state
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- (uncountable) Ignorance.
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- a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
- The color of this fabric.
- A small amount, especially of money.
- (chiefly transgender slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (most commonly a trans woman dressed as a man).
- Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
- A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
- A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
adj
- causing dejection
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
- harshly ironic or sinister
- Ghastly or sinister.
- Rigid and unrelenting.
- Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
- Disgusting; gross.
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- causing dejection
- bad; unfortunate
- without merit; of little or no value or use
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
- (of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- (of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.