✅ Sad describes feeling upset or unhappy (The ending of my book made me sad).

✅ Blue describes feeling dejected, depressed, or miserable (I woke up a little blue).

✅ Sad and blue both describe feeling melancholy, upset, or dejected, but blue is often used as a lighter-hearted way to say you’re feeling big and difficult emotions (She’s been feeling blue since her girlfriend left).

✅ Though sad is a less lighthearted word, it generally refers to smaller or more passing kinds of unhappiness (She felt sad that her favorite café had closed).

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✅ Strong describes someone or something that is robust (They used a strong rope to help them climb the wall). It especially suggests people who have a lot of physical or mental power (We need a strong person to help us move this furniture).

✅ When describing a person, strong emphasizes resilience, whereas tough emphasizes being hardened by circumstances or not easily influenced or affected (The weather makes the people here tough).

✅ When describing things, strong and tough both suggest being resistant to wear (The jacket was made of tough material), but tough also suggests being difficult to work with (I made this spoon from a particularly tough piece of wood).

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✅ Beautiful describes someone or something which is pleasing to the senses (a beautiful dress; a beautiful sound).

✅ Pulchritudinous describes someone who has physical beauty, or things that have a beautiful physical appearance (They stayed in a cabin at the edge of a pulchritudinous lake).

✅ While beautiful can apply beyond a person's looks, pulchritudinous is more limited to describing physical attractiveness (She has a beautiful soul; Hollywood is full of pulchritudinous people).

✅ Pulchritudinous is a very uncommon word. Because it’s used so rarely, and it’s so long and difficult, people usually use it in a funny way.

Check out these easier-to-spell synonyms of pulchritudinous!