1. A state of depression or melancholy. often used with the.
2. A style of music that evolved from southern african-american secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: "the blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” ( B.B. king).

1. plural form of blue.
2. A feeling of sadness or depression.
3. one's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
4. A musical form, african-american in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
5. A musical composition following blues forms.
6. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
7. any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
8. third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue.

1. a type of folk song that originated among black americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes.
2. a state of depression.

1. a state of depression
2. 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