blues

Also a form of blueplural of blue

informalA feeling of sadness or depression.

I've got the blues today.

The blues have hit her hard, and she won't get out of bed.

If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen in the blues […]

informalA feeling of sadness or depression. One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.

Your blues is just like mine.

Your blues are just like mine.

informalA feeling of sadness or depression. The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.

I've got the lonely man's blues.

If you work here long enough, you'll have the butcher's blues just like me.

A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.

Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.

A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.

A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale. A musical composition following blues forms.

My next number is a blues in G.

A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.

They marched in their dress blues.

You never planned on the bombs in the sand Or sleeping in your dress blues.

slangAny of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription painkiller tablets.

Also a form of bluethird-person singular simple present indicative of blue