Synonyms for Blues
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1. bluesnoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   megrims, blue devils, vapors, vapours

2. blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapoursnoun

   a state of depression

   "he had a bad case of the blues"

   Synonyms:
   megrims, blue devils, vapors, vapours, blues

Matched Categories

1. • Black Music
   • Depression
   • Folk Song

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1. woes

   an expression of sorrow, misery or distress; a feeling of dispondency or dispair

   "avoid valentine day flower blues by purchasing flowers the day before valentine's day"

   Submitted by acronimous on February 15, 2014  

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1. bluesnoun

   Synonyms:
   [With The prefixed.] melancholy, dejection, depression, despondency, hypochondria, dumps, vapors, megrims, low spirits, blue-devils, the dismals

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1. bluesnoun

   Synonyms:
   despondency, melancholy, dismals, vapors, depression, blue devils, hypochondria, dumps, megrims

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1. List of paraphrases for "blues":

   bruises

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1. blues

   Synonyms:
   Psychiatry The Blues

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1. Diane Wehrle:

   UK retail destinations suffered post Bank Holiday blues last week, with footfall dropping back by around half of the uplift recorded in the week before, when the school half-term holiday coincided with the Spring bank holiday and amazing weather.

2. Jimi Hendrix, Quoted in Charles Shaar Murray,Crosstown Traffic, ch. 6 (1989).:

   Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

3. Townes Van Zandt:

   There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

4. Nathan Nickerson III almost:

   I'd like to give the blue lobster to the St. Louis aquarium out of respect to the St. Louis Blues, who won the championship, to show that Bruins fans have class.

5. Mick Fleetwood:

   The new book is a pictorial book, which stays very much focused on the beginnings of Fleetwood Mac -- 1967 thought the next eight years -- and it's very much regarding what drove us as young musicians, which was blues, it's really a journey that chronicles all of those early years that are mostly unknown in America.