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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Look Blue (To). To show signs of disappointment, disgust, or displeasure. "Squire Brown looked rather blue at having to pay 2 10s. for the posting expenses from Oxford."- Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Lower, look downcast, frown, pout; hang down the head; pull a long face, make a long face; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; grin a ghastly smile; look blue, look like a drowned man; lay to heart, take to heart. |
Disappointment | Verb: be disappointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast; (wonder); find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth; find one a false prophet. |
Discontent | Verb: be discontented; Adjective: quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on, take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum. |
Disrepute | Play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background; (modesty); be conscious of disgrace; (humility); look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away. |
Feeling | Swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expressions using "LOOK BLUE": look blue at ♦ things look blue ♦ To look blue. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "LOOK BLUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | traurig aussehen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | levertnek látszik (to look blue), lehangoltnak látszik (to look blue), szomorúnak látszik (to look blue), szórakozottnak látszik (to look blue), rosszkedvűnek látszik (to look blue), megzavarodottnak látszik (to look blue), komornak látszik (to look blue), csüggedtnek látszik (to look blue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooklay ueblay pãrea trist (look sad). (various references) иметь унылый вид. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-k-l-l-o-o-u" | |
-2 letters: boulle, lobule. | |
-3 letters: bloke, boule, obole. | |
-4 letters: bell, blue, bole, boll, bolo, book, bulk, bull, kobo, koel, kolo, leku, lobe, lobo, look, lube, oboe, obol, oleo. | |
-5 letters: bel, boo, elk, ell, kob, kue, lek, leu, lob, loo, obe, oke, ole, uke. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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