Blue vs. Azure

Blue vs. Azure — Is There a Difference?

Difference Between Blue and Azure

Bluenoun

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

Azurenoun

A bright blue, as of a clear sky.

Bluenoun

A pigment or dye imparting this hue.

Azurenoun

(Heraldry) The color blue.

Bluenoun

Bluing.

Azurenoun

The blue sky.

Bluenoun

An object having this hue.

Azurenoun

(tincture) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

Bluenoun

Dress or clothing of this hue

The ushers wore blue.

Azurenoun

The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.

Bluenoun

A person who wears a blue uniform.

Azurenoun

(poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.

Bluenoun

blues A dress blue uniform, especially that of the US Army.

Azurenoun

(North America) Any of a number of North American species of butterflies in the lycaenid genus Celastrina.

Bluenoun

A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.

Azurenoun

Lapis lazuli.

Bluenoun

The Union Army.

Azureadjective

sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky

Bluenoun

A bluefish.

Azureadjective

cloudless

Bluenoun

Any of various small blue butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae.

Azureadjective

(tincture) In blazon, of the colour blue.

Bluenoun

The sky.

Azureverb

(transitive) To colour blue.

Bluenoun

The sea.

Azurenoun

a light shade of blue

Blueadjective

Of the color blue.

Azureverb

color azure;

Morning azured the village

Blueadjective

Bluish or having parts that are blue or bluish, as the blue spruce and the blue whale.

Azureadjective

of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky;

October's bright blue weather

Blueadjective

Having a gray or purplish color, as from cold or contusion.

Blueadjective

Wearing blue.

Blueadjective

Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a blue square, indicating an intermediate level of difficulty.

Blueadjective

Relating to or being a blue state.

Blueadjective

Gloomy; depressed.

Blueadjective

Dismal; dreary

a blue day.

Blueadjective

Puritanical; strict.

Blueadjective

Aristocratic; patrician.

Blueadjective

Indecent; risqué

a blue joke.a blue movie.

Blueverb

To make or become blue.

Blueadjective

Of the colour blue.

the deep blue sea

Blueadjective

(informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.

Blueadjective

Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

The candle burns blue.

Blueadjective

(politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

Blueadjective

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.

Blueadjective

Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.

Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout

Blueadjective

(astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

Blueadjective

(of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.

Blueadjective

(of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.

Blueadjective

(archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.

blue and sour religionists;blue laws

Blueadjective

literary; bluestockinged.

Blueadjective

(particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.

Blueadjective

(entertainment) Risque or obscene

His material is too blue for prime-time

Blueadjective

Pornographic or profane.

The air was blue with oaths.a blue movie

Bluenoun

The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.

Bluenoun

A blue dye or pigment.

Bluenoun

Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.

Bluenoun

Blue clothing

The boys in blue marched to the pipers.

Bluenoun

(in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.

Bluenoun

(slang) A member of law enforcement

Bluenoun

The sky, literally or figuratively.

The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.His request for leave came out of the blue.

Bluenoun

The ocean; deep waters.

Bluenoun

Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.

Bluenoun

A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.

Bluenoun

(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.

Bluenoun

Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.

Bluenoun

A bluefish.

Bluenoun

An argument.

Bluenoun

A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.

Bluenoun

(British) A type of firecracker.

Bluenoun

(archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

Bluenoun

(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

Blueverb

(ergative) To make or become blue.

Blueverb

To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

Blueverb

To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)

Blueverb

To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

Bluenoun

the color of the clear sky in the daytime;

he had eyes of bright blue

Bluenoun

blue clothing;

she was wearing blue

Bluenoun

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue;

the Union army was a vast blue

Bluenoun

the sky as viewed during daylight;

he shot an arrow into the blue

Bluenoun

used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

Bluenoun

the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

Bluenoun

any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

Blueverb

turn blue

Blueadjective

having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky;

October's bright blue weathera blue flameblue haze of tobacco smoke

Blueadjective

used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms);

a ragged blue line

Blueadjective

low in spirits;

lonely and blue in a strange citydepressed by the loss of his joba dispirited and resigned expression on her facedowncast after his defeatfeeling discouraged and downhearted

Blueadjective

characterized by profanity or cursing;

foul-mouthed and blasphemousblue languageprofane words

Blueadjective

suggestive of sexual impropriety;

a blue movieblue jokeshe skips asterisks and gives you the gamy detailsa juicy scandala naughty winknaughty wordsracy anecdotesa risque storyspicy gossip

Blueadjective

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy;

an aristocratic familyaristocratic Bostoniansaristocratic governmenta blue familyblue bloodthe blue-blooded aristocracyof gentle bloodpatrician landholders of the American Southaristocratic bearingaristocratic featurespatrician tastes

Blueadjective

morally rigorous and strict;

blue lawsthe puritan work ethicpuritanic distaste for alcoholshe was anything but puritanical in her behavior

Blueadjective

causing dejection;

a blue daythe dark days of the wara week of rainy depressing weathera disconsolate winter landscapethe first dismal dispiriting days of Novembera dark gloomy daygrim rainy weather