'blues' definitions:
Definition of 'blues'
(from WordNet)
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
noun
A state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues" [syn: blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours]
Definition of 'blues'
From: GCIDE
- blues \blues\ n. a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. a state of depression; as, he had a bad case of the blues.
- Syn: megrims. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'blues'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anthem,
- art song,
- aubade,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- balladry,
- ballata,
- barcarole,
- blahs,
- blue devils,
- bluegrass,
- blues song,
- boat song,
- border ballads,
- Brautlied,
- bridal hymn,
- brindisi,
- calypso,
- canso,
- canticle,
- canzone,
- canzonet,
- canzonetta,
- carol,
- cavatina,
- chanson,
- chant,
- chantey,
- Christmas carol,
- city blues,
- country blues,
- country music,
- country-and-western music,
- croon,
- croon song,
- dejection,
- depression,
- dirge,
- dismals,
- ditty,
- dods,
- doldrums,
- dolefuls,
- dorts,
- drinking song,
- dumps,
- epithalamium,
- ethnic music,
- field holler,
- folk song,
- folk songs,
- frumps,
- gloom,
- grumps,
- heavyheartedness,
- hymeneal,
- Kunstlied,
- lay,
- Liebeslied,
- lied,
- lilt,
- love song,
- love-lilt,
- matin,
- megrims,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- minstrel song,
- minstrelsy,
- mopes,
- mulligrubs,
- mumps,
- national anthem,
- old-time country music,
- pouts,
- prothalamium,
- serena,
- serenade,
- serenata,
- song,
- sulks,
- sullens,
- the blues,
- theme song,
- torch song,
- unhappiness,
- Volkslied,
- war song,
- wedding song,
- western swing
Words containing 'blues'
- Blue,
- blueing,
- out of the blue,
- Berlin blue,
- Big Blue,
- Blue Ash,
- Blue Bell,
- Blue Diamond,
- Blue Earth,
- Blue Eye,
- Blue Grass,
- Blue Hill,
- Blue Hills,
- Blue Island,
- Blue Lake,
- Blue Monday,
- Blue Mound,
- Blue Mounds,
- Blue Mountain,
- Blue Peter,
- Blue Point,
- Blue Rapids,
- Blue Ridge,
- Blue River,
- Blue Springs,
- Blue asbestus,
- Blue black,
- Blue blood,
- Blue bonnet,
- Blue book,
- Blue buck,
- Blue cod,
- Blue crab,
- Blue curls,
- Blue devils,
- Blue fire,
- Blue gage,
- Blue gum,
- Blue jack,
- Blue jacket,
- Blue jaundice,
- Blue jay,
- Blue laws,
- Blue light,
- Blue mantle,
- Blue mass,
- Blue mold,
- Blue mould,
- Blue ointment,
- Blue perch,
- Blue pigeon,
- Blue pill,
- Blue print,
- Blue ribbon,
- Blue ruin,
- Blue spar,
- Blue stocking,
- Blue stone,
- Blue tangle,
- Blue thrush,
- Blue verdigris,
- Blue verditer,
- Blue vitriol,
- Blue water,
- Blue wren,
- Cobalt blue,
- Coventry blue,
- Indigo blue,
- Mazarine blue,
- Methylene blue,
- Mineral blue,
- Mountain blue,
- Naphthol blue,
- Navy blue,
- Prussian blue,
- Pure blue,
- Saxon blue,
- Sevres blue,
- Sky blue,
- Thenard's blue,
- Thumb blue,
- To look blue,
- True blue,
- Turnbull's blue,
- Verditer blue,
- Williamson's blue,
- azodiphenyl blue,
- bavarian blue,
- black and blue,
- blue air,
- blue angel,
- blue baby,
- blue bass,
- blue beech,
- blue bice,
- blue bindweed,
- blue bugle,
- blue bull,
- blue cat,
- blue catfish,
- blue cheese,
- blue chip,
- blue cohosh,
- blue columbine,
- blue copperas,
- blue coral,
- blue daisy,
- blue darter,
- blue devil,
- blue elder,
- blue elderberry,
- blue fig,
- blue flag,
- blue fleabane,
- blue fox,
- blue funk,
- blue goose,
- blue grama,
- blue green,
- blue in the face,
- blue jasmine,
- blue jean,
- blue jeans,
- blue jessamine,
- blue jet,
- blue joke,
- blue language,
- blue law,
- blue lotus,
- blue mahoe,
- blue marguerite,
- blue marlin,
- blue mockingbird,
- blue moon,
- blue movie,
- blue murder,
- blue nile,
- blue note,
- blue orchid,
- blue pea,
- blue peafowl,
- blue pencil,
- blue petrel,
- blue pickerel,
- blue pike,
- blue pikeperch,
- blue pimpernel,
- blue pointed,
- blue poppy,
- blue racer,
- blue roach,
- blue runner,
- blue sage,
- blue shark,
- blue skullcap,
- blue sky,
- blue snowbird,
- blue star,
- blue stem,
- blue story,
- blue streak,
- blue succory,
- blue sunfish,
- blue thistle,
- blue tit,
- blue toadflax,
- blue tulip,
- blue velvet,
- blue wall,
- blue walleye,
- blue weed,
- blue whale,
- bright blue,
- bromophenol blue,
- bromothymol blue,
- bromphenol blue,
- bromthymol blue,
- cerulean blue,
- danish blue,
- dark blue,
- dress blues,
- french blue,
- greenish blue,
- iron blue,
- kentucky blue,
- once in a blue moon,
- pale blue,
- peacock blue,
- powder blue,
- purplish blue,
- reddish blue,
- rhythm and blues,
- royal blue,
- steel blue,
- ultramarine blue,
- blue bluish light-blue dark-blue,
- Blue Ash, OH,
- Blue Bell, PA,
- Blue Berry Hill,
- Blue Diamond, NV,
- Blue Earth County,
- Blue Earth, MN,
- Blue Eye, AR,
- Blue Eye, MO,
- Blue Grass, IA,
- Blue Hen State,
- Blue Hen's Chickens,
- Blue Hill, NE,
- Blue Hills, CT,
- Blue Island, IL,
- Blue Lake, CA,
- Blue Mound, IL,
- Blue Mound, KS,
- Blue Mound, TX,
- Blue Mounds, WI,
- Blue Mountain, AL,
- Blue Mountain, AR,
- Blue Mountain, MS,
- Blue Point, NY,
- Blue Rapids, KS,
- Blue Ridge Manor,
- Blue Ridge, AL,
- Blue Ridge, GA,
- Blue Ridge, TX,
- Blue Ridge, VA,
- Blue River, CO,
- Blue River, WI,
- Blue Springs, AL,
- Blue Springs, MO,
- Blue Springs, MS,
- Blue Springs, NE,
- Blue-blooded,
- Blue-bonnet,
- Blue-eye,
- Blue-eyed,
- Blue-john,
- Blue-skylaw,
- Blue-veined,
- Kentucky blue grass,
- Sanders-blue,
- Saunders-blue,
- Sky-blue,
- Smalt-blue,
- True-blue,
- black-and-blue,
- blue african lily,
- blue cardinal flower,
- blue channel cat,
- blue channel catfish,
- blue cheese dressing,
- blue collar worker,
- blue false indigo,
- blue mold fungus,
- blue mountain tea,
- blue point siamese,
- blue ribbon commission,
- blue ribbon committee,
- blue ribbon jury,
- blue ridge mountains,
- blue sky law,
- blue wall of silence,
- blue-belly,
- blue-black,
- blue-blind,
- blue-blindness,
- blue-bottle,
- blue-chip,
- blue-collar,
- blue-flowered,
- blue-fruited,
- blue-gray,
- blue-green,
- blue-grey,
- blue-lilac,
- blue-pencil,
- blue-purple,
- blue-ribbon,
- blue-sky,
- blue-violet,
- blue-white,
- colorado blue spruce,
- dark-blue,
- french ultramarine blue,
- gray-blue,
- grayish-blue,
- great blue heron,
- great blue shark,
- grey-blue,
- greyish-blue,
- insoluble Prussian blue,
- kentucy blue grass,
- kerry blue terrier,
- light-blue,
- like blue murder,
- lilac-blue,
- little blue heron,
- mauve-blue,
- mountain blue berry,
- peacock-blue,
- powdery-blue,
- purple-blue,
- purplish-blue,
- rhythm and blues musician,
- rhythm-and-blues,
- silver-blue,
- silvery-blue,
- southern blue flag,
- violet-blue,
- wild blue yonder,
- wooly blue curls,
- azure cerulean sky-blue bright blue,
- Blue Berry Hill, TX,
- Blue Earth County, MN,
- Blue Ridge Manor, KY,
- Blue-eyed grass,
- Blue-grass State,
- Blue-throated robin,
- baby blue-eyes,
- baby-blue-eyes,
- black-and-blue livid,
- blue-back mullet,
- blue-bellied lorikeet,
- blue-bellied parrot,
- blue-chip stock,
- blue-eyed mary,
- blue-footed booby,
- blue-green alga,
- blue-green algae,
- blue-headed vireo,
- blue-throated warbler,
- blue-winged teal,
- yellow-blue dichromacy,
- blue-eyed african daisy,
- blue-eyed yellow warbler,
- maiden blue-eyed mary,
- yellow-blue color blindness,
- blae bluish-black or gray-blue,
- Polemonium coeruleum having corymbs of drooping flowers usually blue Gray,
- propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar