bluesier; bluesiest
: resembling, characteristic of, or suited to the blues

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Save Me Five years later, Nashville rapper turned bluesy country vocalist Jelly Roll was correct to gamble on how appealing his falsetto tenor could be. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 25 Nov. 2024 The vaguely bluesy folk songs courtesy of A.G. Cook put us in a place of longing from frame one. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024 Most prominent across the album is frontwoman Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach, a bluesy Brit who sings in cursive. Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024 Also earning points for at least trying to add some regional atmosphere is a soundtrack full of various-artist cuts in a bluesy, twangy Southern rock mode. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bluesy 

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bluesy was in 1933

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“Bluesy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bluesy. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.

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