1. (

• blues

) 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 ;

2. (

• blues ,
• blue_devils ,
• megrims ,
• vapors ,
• vapours

) a state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues" ;

1. (

• blue

) turn blue ;

1. (

• blue ,
• bluish ,
• blueish

) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" ;

2. (

• blue

) used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line" ;

3. (

• gloomy ,
• grim ,
• blue ,
• depressed ,
• dispirited ,
• down ,
• downcast ,
• downhearted ,
• down_in_the_mouth ,
• low ,
• low-spirited

) filled with melancholy and despondency; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" ;

4. (

• blasphemous ,
• blue ,
• profane

) characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" ;

5. (

• blue ,
• gamy ,
• gamey ,
• juicy ,
• naughty ,
• racy ,
• risque ,
• spicy

) suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" ;

6. (

• aristocratic ,
• aristocratical ,
• blue ,
• blue-blooded ,
• gentle ,
• patrician

) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" ;

7. (

• blue ,
• puritanic ,
• puritanical

) morally rigorous and strict; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"; "blue laws" ;

8. (

• blue ,
• dark ,
• dingy ,
• disconsolate ,
• dismal ,
• gloomy ,
• grim ,
• sorry ,
• drab ,
• drear ,
• dreary

) causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" ;