blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blo͞oz
ipa: /bluːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: blues
Senses: examples: text: I've got the blues today.
text: The blues have hit her hard, and she won't get out of bed.
text: If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen in the blues […]
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: blueness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: A feeling of sadness or depression.
examples: text: Your blues is just like mine.
text: Your blues are just like mine.
synonyms: word: blueness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: A feeling of sadness or depression.
One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
examples: text: I've got the lonely man's blues.
text: If you work here long enough, you'll have the butcher's blues just like me.
synonyms: word: blueness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: A feeling of sadness or depression.
The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
examples: text: Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
text: A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
examples: text: My next number is a blues in G.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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.
examples: text: They marched in their dress blues.
text: You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleeping in your dress blues.
ref: 2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues:
coordinate_terms: camos
fatigues
greens
khakis
glosses: A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.
Derived terms: Arctic blues
baby blues
blue note
blues and twos
blueshead
bluesify
bluesish
blueslike
bluesman
blues-rock
blues scale
bluester
blueswoman
bluesy
Chicago blues
classic female blues
club blues
corona blues
country blues
country-blues
cry the blues
Delta blues
delta blues
eight-bar blues
electric blues
folk blues
folk-blues
gospel-blues
gospel blues
have the blues
hill country blues
jump blues
Piedmont blues
preblues
punk-blues
rhythm and blues
soul blues
soul-blues
summer blues
swamp blues
talking blues
tease and blues
tees and blues
Texas blues
theatre blues
Ts and blues
twelve-bar blues
twelve bar blues
vaudeville blues
winter blues