bluer

Adjective

blue (comparative bluer or more blue, superlative bluest or most blue)

1. Of a blue hue.
   • the deep blue sea
2. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
   • “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   miserable, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen

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.
   • My hands were blue with cold.
4. Pale, without redness or glare.
   • The candle burns blue.
5. (US) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
   • I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
6. (Australian) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
   • Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout

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