Sorrow vs Blues - What's the difference?
sorrow | blues |
(uncountable) unhappiness, woe
* Rambler
(countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
To feel or express grief.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
*, II.12:
English plurals
(informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
* 1883 ,
(singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
(music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
(sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
# (Australian rules football) .
# (rugby league) .
# (soccer, Birmingham) .
# (soccer, Liverpool) .
# (soccer, London) .
# (soccer, Manchester) .
(blue)
As a noun sorrow
is (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.As a verb sorrow
is to feel or express grief.As a proper noun blues is
(informal) any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue.sorrow
English
Noun
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow .
Verb
(en verb)- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
- It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.
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* *blues
English
Noun
(-)- The painting was vibrantly colored in reds and greens and blues .
- If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues ...
- Your blues is just like mine.
- Your blues are just like mine.
- Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
- A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues .
- My next number is a blues in G.
- ''The marched in their dress blues .