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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How to use BLUES in a sentence?

1. Keith Urban:

   We sent over 200 people through to Hollywood, and we narrowed it down, and then even further down to get to our top 48, and those 48 guys and girls we took into the House of Blues in Los Angeles to put them into a live club setting, where the band was set up, and they got up onstage and did a song each in front of the audience in that club.

2. Kurt Harris ':

   The last decade of my Marine service is gone, my uniforms, my dress blues, photos of friends that are not with us anymore, it’s all gone.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Heather Lydia Thornhill:

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