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  • 121True blue — Blue Blue (bl[=u]), a. [Compar. {Bluer} (bl[=u] [ e]r); superl. {Bluest}.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black, fr. Icel.bl[=a]r livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl[*a], D. blauw, OHG. bl[=a]o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F. bleu,… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 122spirit — 1 / spIrit/ noun 1 INNER PART (singular, uncountable) an inner part of someone that includes their thoughts and feelings, and is thought of as making them what they are: His spirit was untameable. | strong in spirit | independent/proud/free etc… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 123happy */*/*/ — UK [ˈhæpɪ] / US adjective Word forms happy : adjective happy comparative happier superlative happiest Get it right: happy: Although the adjective happy ends in the letter y , the related noun happiness is spelled with an i (not a y ): Wrong:… …

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  • 124Dickens, Charles — ▪ British novelist Introduction in full  Charles John Huffam Dickens   born Feb. 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng. died June 9, 1870, Gad s Hill, near Chatham, Kent  English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His …

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  • 125depression — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. recession, slowdown. II Pressing downward Nouns 1. depression, lowering; dip (see concavity); abasement, debasement; reduction. 2. overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion,… …

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  • 126dejectedness — noun a feeling of low spirits he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits • Syn: ↑downheartedness, ↑low spiritedness, ↑lowness, ↑dispiritedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑dispirited ( …

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  • 127dispiritedness — noun a feeling of low spirits he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits • Syn: ↑downheartedness, ↑dejectedness, ↑low spiritedness, ↑lowness • Derivationally related forms: ↑dispirited, ↑low …

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  • 128downheartedness — noun a feeling of low spirits he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits • Syn: ↑dejectedness, ↑low spiritedness, ↑lowness, ↑dispiritedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑dispirited ( …

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