blues

n. state of depression, sadness, melancholy; style of syncopated jazz that originated from the early lamenting folk music of African Americans and is characterized by the repeated use of flat notes (Music)

n. color blue, color of the sky or sea

v. paint blue; treat with bluing (substance used to whiten clothes); waste money, spend extravagantly (Slang)

Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed English and Scots-Irish narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influence. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became part of the genres of jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and pop songs.
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Noun
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
(hypernym) black music, African-American music
(hyponym) boogie, boogie-woogie
(part-meronym) blue note
2. a state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues"
(synonym) blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours
(hypernym) depression

Noun
1. the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
(synonym) blueness
(hypernym) chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
(hyponym) azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue
2. blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
(hypernym) clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear
3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
(hypernym) organization, organisation
(hyponym) Union Army
4. the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"
(synonym) blue sky, blue air, wild blue yonder
(hypernym) sky
5. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
(synonym) bluing, blueing
(hypernym) dye, dyestuff
6. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
(synonym) amobarbital sodium, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal
(hypernym) amobarbital
7. any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
(hypernym) lycaenid, lycaenid butterfly
(member-holonym) Lycaena, genus Lycaena
Verb
1. turn blue
(hypernym) discolor, discolour, colour, color
(derivation) blueness
Adjective
1. having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
(synonym) bluish, blueish, light-blue, dark-blue, blue-black
(similar) chromatic
2. used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
(similar) northern
3. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
(synonym) depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
(similar) dejected
4. characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
(synonym) blasphemous, profane
(similar) dirty
5. suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
(synonym) gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
(similar) sexy
6. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
(synonym) aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
(similar) noble
7. morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
(synonym) blue(a), puritan, puritanic, puritanical
(similar) nonindulgent
8. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
(synonym) dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim
(similar) cheerless, uncheerful

n. blues, style of jazz (Music)

n. blues, state of depression, sadness, melancholy; style of syncopated jazz that originated from the early lamenting folk music of African Americans and is characterized by the repeated use of flat notes (Music)