Meaning & use
blue
Having the color of a clear daytime sky, or, informally, feeling sad or depressed.
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She painted the nursery walls a soft, pale blue before the baby arrived.
He'd been feeling a little blue ever since his best friend moved away.
A note on using this word
Blue's emotional sense, meaning sad, is common in casual speech and is the origin of the music genre 'the blues.'
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