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Blue Feeling Reason Sad Depressed Feel Earthly Colour

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If you are feeling b___, you are feeling sad or depressed, often when there is no particular reason .If you are feeling blue, you are feeling sad or depressed, often when there is no particular reason .
There's no earthly reason for me to feel so blue.
word blue
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colour
Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
There were swallows in the cloudless blue sky.
She fixed her pale blue eyes on her father's.
...colourful blues and reds.
noun
The blues is a type of music which was developed by African American musicians in the southern United States. It is characterized by a slow tempo and a strong rhythm .
His singing really does have the depth and the emotional range of the blues.
...the blues bars of Chicago.
If you have got the blues, you feel sad and depressed.
He's been suffering from the blues since losing his job.
A Cambridge blue or an Oxford blue is a man or woman who has played for Cambridge or Oxford University in a particular sport.
adjective
If you are feeling blue, you are feeling sad or depressed, often when there is no particular reason .
There's no earthly reason for me to feel so blue.
Blue films, stories, or jokes are about sex .
...a secret stash of porn mags and blue movies.
inflections bluerbluestblues
cefr-level A1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1

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