blue
adjective (COLOUR) /bluː/Definition
A1 of the colour of the sky without clouds on a bright day, or a darker or lighter type of this: a faded blue shirt pale blue eyes Her hands were blue with cold (= slightly blue because of the cold).Common coloursLess common colours blueness /ˈbluː.nəs/ noun [U] Common coloursLess common colours
(Definition of blue adjective (COLOUR) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- bluish adjective
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- brownish adjective
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- green noun (COLOUR)
- greenish adjective
- orange adjective
- pink adjective (PALE RED)
- pink noun (COLOUR)
- pinkish adjective
- purple adjective (COLOUR)
- purplish adjective
- red adjective
- red noun
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- reddish adjective
- yellow noun
- yellow verb
- yellowish adjective
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