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

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

   Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

2. Dale Carnegie:

   Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

3. Heather Lydia Thornhill:

   If my life was dense from all my blues I'd raise my frequency just by wanting you.

4. Sarita Robinson:

   Getting outside and exercising is a good way of keeping your mood up -- and if you want to beat the blues exercising in nature is a great way to do that.

5. Joe Biden:

   Perhaps no music has had as profound and powerful an impact in shaping America's musical score as Black music, for generations, Black music has conveyed the hopes and struggles of a resilient people -- spirituals mourning the original sin of slavery and later heralding freedom from bondage, hard truths told through jazz and the sounds of Motown during the civil rights movement, and hip-hop and rhythm and blues that remind us of the work that still lies ahead.