blues

Plural: blues

Noun

• a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
• a state of depression
  • "he had a bad case of the blues"
• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
• blue clothing
• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
• the sky as viewed during daylight
• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
• plural of blue
• A feeling of sadness or depression.
• A feeling of sadness or depression.
• One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
• A feeling of sadness or depression.
• The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
• A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
• A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
• A musical composition following blues forms.
• A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
• Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.

Verb

• turn blue
• third-person singular simple present indicative of blue

Examples

• A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.
• I've got the blues today.
• I've got the lonely man's blues.
• If you work here long enough, you'll have the butcher's blues just like me.
• Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
• My next number is a blues in G.
• The blues have hit her hard, and she won't get out of bed.
• They marched in their dress blues.
• Your blues are just like mine.
• Your blues is just like mine.

Synonyms

amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue, blue air, blue angel, blue devil, blue devils, blue sky, blueing, blueness, bluing, megrims, vapors, vapours, wild blue yonder, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness