Blues Definition

blo͝oz
noun
A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
American Heritage
A depressed, unhappy feeling.
Webster's New World
A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first.
American Heritage
Black folk music characterized by minor harmonies, a typically slow tempo, and melancholy words.
Webster's New World
The form of jazz and popular music that evolved from this.
Webster's New World
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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue.

Wiktionary
abbreviation
(informal) Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue.
Wiktionary

Origin of Blues

  • Short for blue devils a feeling of depression

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Blues Sentence Examples

  • But, speaking generally, Japanese blues do not rank on the same decorative level with those of China.

  • His colouring for the most part is unpleasing, partly owing to his violent treatment of skies with crude blues and orange, and his chiaroscuro usually is much exaggerated.

  • He was himself a Tory, not from rational conviction - for his serious opinion was that one form of government was just as good or as bad as another - but from mere passion, such as inflamed the Capulets against the Montagues, or the Blues of the Roman circus against the Greens.

  • To diversify properly and mingle well together the reds, whites, purples, yellows and blues, with all their intervening shades, requires considerable taste and powers of combination; and ascertained failures may be rectified at the proper time the next season.

  • The blue or green color was made by fritting together silica, lime, alkaline carbonate and copper carbonate; the latter varied from 3% in delicate blues to 20% in deep purple.blues.

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