blues
Meaning of blues
plural noun
- melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US towards the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s, as black people migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
blues has always had a strong following in Australia
a blues singer
- feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression.
she's got the blues
mid 18th century (in blues (sense 2)): elliptically from blue devils ‘depression or delirium tremens’.
plural noun- blue colour or pigment.
she was dressed in blue
the dark blue of his eyes
armchairs in pastel blues and greens
- a small butterfly, the male of which is predominantly blue while the female is typically brown.
- a person who has represented Cambridge University (a Cambridge blue ) or Oxford University (an Oxford blue ) at a particular sport in a match between the two universities.
a flyweight boxing blue
- an argument or fight.
did you have a blue or what?
- a mistake.
his tactical blue in saying the opposition wasn't ready to govern
- a nickname for a red-headed person.
only an Aussie could make a red-headed man ‘Blue.’
- a supporter of the Conservative Party.
- make or become blue.
the light dims, bluing the retina
blued paper
the day would haze, the air bluing with afternoon
- wash (white clothes) with bluing.
they blued the shirts and starched the uniforms
Middle English: from Old French bleu, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Old English blǣwen ‘blue’ and Old Norse blár ‘dark blue’ (see also blaeberry).
verb, 3rd person present
squander or recklessly spend (money).
mid 19th century: perhaps a variant of blow1.
Information about blues
- The singular form of blues is: blue.
- Languages in which blues is used:
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Hyphenation of blues
blues
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- blues is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
blues synonyms
Meaning blue devils:
Meaning feelings of severe despondency and dejection:
Meaning the condition or quality of being sad:
Meaning the feeling of not being happy; sadness:
Meaning a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause:
Meaning a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort:
Meaning a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others:
Meaning partial or total darkness:
Meaning a sad and depressed state; low spirits:
Meaning low spirits from loss of hope or courage; dejection:
Meaning the complete loss or absence of hope:
blues antonyms
Meaning the state of being happy:
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Words that rhyme with blues
lues, devalues, disvalues, eigenvalues, lvalues, misvalues, outvalues, overvalues, prevalues, revalues, salues, transvalues, undervalues, upvalues, values, Blues, trueblues, clues, flues, glues, reglues, superglues, unglues, heredolues, neurolues, slues
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