Definition of Blues

Noun: blues  blooz

  1. 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
     
  2. A state of depression
    "he had a bad case of the blues";
    - blue devils, megrims, vapors [US], vapours [Brit, Cdn]
Noun: blue  bloo
  1. Blue colour or pigment; resembling the colour of the clear sky in the daytime
    "he had eyes of bright blue";
    - blueness
     
  2. Blue clothing
    "she was wearing blue"
     
  3. Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
    "the Union army was a vast blue"
     
  4. The sky as viewed during daylight
    "he shot an arrow into the blue";
    - blue sky, blue air, wild blue yonder
     
  5. Used to whiten laundry, hair or give it a bluish tinge
    - bluing, blueing
     
  6. The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
    - amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal
     
  7. Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
     
  8. [Austral, NZ] An embarrassing mistake
    - blunder, blooper [N. Amer], bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, flub [N. Amer], botch, boner, boo-boo
     
  9. [Austral, NZ] An angry dispute
    "they had a blue";
    - quarrel, wrangle, row[2], words, run-in, dustup
     
  10. [Austral, NZ] Someone who has red hair
    - redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop
Verb: blue  bloo
  1. Turn blue

See also:
bluer
blueshift

Anagrams containing the word blues

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