blue

/bluː/

意味: 青

例文: Aki painted her pancakes blue—on purpose.
　　  アキはパンケーキを青く塗った。わざと。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: blue sky(青空), blue ocean(青い海), blue eyes(青い目)

定義: 青色のことです。空や海の色としてよく見られます。気持ちが落ち込んでいるときにも「ブルー」と言います。

blueは約7,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
Noun: blue clothing
Noun: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
Noun: the sky as viewed during daylight
Noun: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Noun: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
Noun: any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
Verb: turn blue
Adjective: of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; – Helen Hunt Jackson
Adjective: used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
Adjective: filled with melancholy and despondency
Adjective: characterized by profanity or cursing
Adjective: suggestive of sexual impropriety
Adjective: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
Adjective: morally rigorous and strict
Adjective: causing dejection

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The sky turned a deep shade of blue at sunset.(夕焼けで空が深い青に染まった。)
I love my new blue sneakers; they make me feel cool!(新しい青いスニーカーが大好きだ；かっこいい気分になれる！)
The artist chose blue to evoke a sense of tranquility.(アーティストは静けさを表現するために青を選んだ。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he had eyes of bright blue
Noun: she was wearing blue
Noun: the Union army was a vast blue
Noun: he shot an arrow into the blue
Adjective: October’s bright blue weather
Adjective: a blue flame
Adjective: blue haze of tobacco smoke
Adjective: a ragged blue line
Adjective: gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
Adjective: gloomy predictions
Adjective: a gloomy silence
Adjective: took a grim view of the economy
Adjective: the darkening mood
Adjective: lonely and blue in a strange city
Adjective: depressed by the loss of his job
Adjective: a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
Adjective: downcast after his defeat
Adjective: feeling discouraged and downhearted
Adjective: foul-mouthed and blasphemous
Adjective: blue language
Adjective: profane words
Adjective: a blue movie
Adjective: blue jokes
Adjective: he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
Adjective: a juicy scandal
Adjective: a naughty wink
Adjective: naughty words
Adjective: racy anecdotes
Adjective: a risque story
Adjective: spicy gossip
Adjective: an aristocratic family
Adjective: aristocratic Bostonians
Adjective: aristocratic government
Adjective: a blue family
Adjective: blue blood
Adjective: the blue-blooded aristocracy
Adjective: of gentle blood
Adjective: patrician landholders of the American South
Adjective: aristocratic bearing
Adjective: aristocratic features
Adjective: patrician tastes
Adjective: the puritan work ethic
Adjective: puritanic distaste for alcohol
Adjective: she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
Adjective: a blue day
Adjective: the dark days of the war
Adjective: a week of rainy depressing weather
Adjective: a disconsolate winter landscape
Adjective: the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Adjective: a dark gloomy day
Adjective: grim rainy weather

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Amytal, amobarbital sodium, aristocratic, aristocratical, blasphemous, blue, blue air, blue angel, blue devil, blue sky, blue-blooded, blueing, blueish, blueness, bluing, bluish, dark, depressed, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, dreary, gamey, gamy, gentle, gloomy, grim, juicy, low, low-spirited, naughty, patrician, profane, puritanic, puritanical, racy, risque, sorry, spicy, wild blue yonder

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): amobarbital, chromatic color, clothing, discolor, dye, lycaenid, organization, sky

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accessory, acid dye, adhocracy, affiliate, alizarin yellow, alliance, amobarbital sodium, anil, aniline dye, apparel, array, association, attire, azo dye, basic dye, beachwear, black, blacken, blond, blue, blue sky, bluing, blush, bromophenol blue, bromothymol blue, brown, bureaucracy, change, civilian clothing, cochineal, company, complementary color, copper, cyanine dye, defense, deputation, direct dye, drag, dye, enterprise, establishment, federation, fiefdom, fire brigade, fluorescein, fluorochrome, footwear, force, garment, girl scouts, green, grey, hair dye, hairstreak, handwear, headdress, hierarchy, host, institution, kendal green, knitwear, lac dye, lead acetate, leisure wear, line of defense, line organization, loungewear, machine, mackerel sky, man’s clothing, musical organization, neckpiece, nightwear, nongovernmental organization, olive, orange, orchil, outerwear, pale, party, pastel, peace corps, pink, polity, pool, professional organization, protective garment, purple, quango, quercitron, radiopaque dye, ready-to-wear, red, redden, safranine, salmon, silver, slip-on, slops, street clothes, sunburn, tailor-made, tammany hall, tan, togs, tone, turn, tyrian purple, uniform, union, unit, vat dye, vestiture, whiten, woad, woman’s clothing, work-clothing, yellow

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): azure, dark blue, greenish blue, powder blue, prussian blue, purplish blue, steel blue, ultramarine, union army

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: Puritanism, aristocracy, aristocrat, blasphemy, blue, blueness, bluing, dispiritedness, downheartedness, dreariness, gaminess, gentility, gloominess, low-spiritedness, lowness, patrician, profaneness, profanity, puritan, raciness, spiciness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun
comparative-er

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検5級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: sadness