Blues
Blues noun - A state or spell of low spirits.
Usage example: failing the driving test gave me the blues for the rest of the day
Intoxication is an antonym for blues.
Intoxication
Intoxication noun - A state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion.
Usage example: the intoxication felt by two people who have just fallen in love
Blues is an antonym for intoxication.
Both words in one sentence
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Morality Ballad: "Like a Rolling Stone" When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal Ode to Intoxication: An ambiguous one in "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues;" there's a lot of drunkenness in that song, and it's not entirely negative or positive.
Source: Music / Highway 61 Revisited
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