blue
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2.1
- adjective
- /bluː/
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triste
- Who is that person in your life who sees your blue qualities?
- feeling blue
But friends, don't be blue because there's always Team Red.
- But friends, don't be blue because there's always Team Red.
- Who is that person in your life who sees your blue qualities?
- Our dad, our Sisyphus, places his, pushes his blue heart up to the station.
Examples
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Before I met him, I was, admittedly, blue, or more accurately, depressed.
Fiction book (1994) -
Go back to sleep, there's no need to feel blue.
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Been another blue day without you girl
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I'm just out there trying in the blue, like just nothing is working out.
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If anybody could get Stevie out of his blue funk, it was Robbie.
Fiction book (1992) -
I always feel blue during the winter when the days are so short.
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She felt blue after her friend moved away, leaving her feeling lonely.
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If you're feeling blue, it might help to talk to someone about your feelings.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling unhappy or upset because of something
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3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
336
1.0
Feeling sad or without energy
73
4.2
Sad and hopeless, making things seem very bad
62
4.5
Making you feel sad and hopeless
44
3.8
A gloomy, boring time that makes you feel sad or tired
37
5.9
Feeling or showing deep sadness
29
2.5
Feeling sad and without much hope
23
4.1
Looking or feeling sad and quiet
5
5.4
Feeling sad and without hope
5
7.2
Feeling deep, quiet sadness
3
4.7
Feeling sad and without much hope
1
7.8
Feeling sad or unhappy
1
4.1
Feeling sad and without much hope
1
5.1
Feeling sad and without much energy
Causing deep sadness in people or places
Antonyms
Idioms
1
9.0
You must choose between two options that are both bad
To start something that quickly becomes exciting or causes strong debate
Compounds
- US
7
5.1
A range of Appalachian mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia that look blue from far away
- Specialized
4
4.1
A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
4
3.3
A mountain range in the eastern United States from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
- Specialized
2
8.4
A very large powerful bomb the US military uses to destroy enemy positions
- US
2
3.4
A bluish crab that lives on North America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts and is eaten for its sweet meat
- Formal
2
6.1
An independent group of respected experts who study a public problem and give advice
- Jargon
2
9.5
An unwritten rule among police officers not to report a colleague's illegal actions to protect them from punishment
1
4.6
A large bird with blue-grey feathers, long legs and a long neck that lives near water
- US
1
9.9
A type of walleye fish with bluish color that lived in the Great Lakes and is now extinct
- Specialized
1
9.9
Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
- Specialized
1
5.8
A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
1
6.8
A deep bright blue paint color first made from a stone called lapis lazuli and now often made artificially
- Formal
1
5.9
A group of respected experts chosen to study an important public problem and give advice
- US
1
6.5
A plant that lives for many years and has clusters of blue, star-shaped flowers in the southeastern United States
1
7.7
A water plant with blue flowers that people often use in art, religion, and traditional medicine
- Specialized
1
7.0
A musical note played a bit lower in jazz and blues to sound sad and emotional
How Sad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blue for 'sad' grew from older phrases like blue devils that meant 'low spirits', so blue came to describe a gloomy or unhappy mood.