Racy vs Blue - What's the Difference?

Blue

Racy

Definitions

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

Examples

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

Parts of Speech

Adjective, Noun, Verb
Adjective

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