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Blues

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.

A state of depression. Synonyms: blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours.

Blue

noun

Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime. Synonym: blueness.

Blue clothing.

Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue.

The sky as viewed during daylight. Synonyms: blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder.

Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge. Synonyms: blueing, bluing.

The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic. Synonyms: amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue angel, blue devil.

Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

verb

(past & past part. blued; pres. part. bluing)

Turn blue.

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"Blues" Quotes from Famous Books

... an orchestra clashed out the latest Blues and in the cleared space couples were speeding up and down to the syncopations, while between tables agile waiters balanced overloaded trays or whisked silver covers off scarlet lobsters or lit mysterious little ...

— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley

... Marian. You are in the blues. Why dont you go to Ned, and tell him that he is a cast-iron walking machine, and that you are unhappy, and want the society of a flesh-and-blood man? Have a furious scene with him, and all ...

— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw

... the great landscape colorist. In the same way the blue of distance, however intense, is not the blue of a bright blue flower, and it is not distinguished from it by different texture merely, but by a certain intermixture and under current of warm color, which is altogether wanting in many of the blues of Fielding's distances; and so of every bright distant color; while in foreground where colors may be, and ought to be, pure, yet that any of them are expressive of light is only to be felt where there is the accurate fitting of them to their relative shadows which we find in ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

... beautiful tall trees, high box hedges, and distant, rolling downs golden with grain and sunlight. Also, whenever our road drew near the railway, we'd caught exciting glimpses of long trains "camouflaged" in blurry greens and blues, to hide themselves from aeroplanes. Nevertheless, Mother Beckett had begun to droop. Her blue eyes hardly brightened to interest when Brian said we were in the famous region of the Meuse, part of the Austrian ...

— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... liqueurs were prepared; and Dr Feasible's heart failed him, when he witnessed the ingress and egress of the pastrycooks, with their boxes on their heads. Among his company he had already mustered up five celebrated blues; four ladies of quality, of better reputation than Dr Feasible's; seven or eight baronets and knights; a bishop of Fernando Po; three or four general officers; and a dozen French and German visitors ...

— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

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