blue-gray
- adjective
- /bluːˈɡreɪ/
- US
- The blue-gray feathers of the bird shimmered under the sunlight.
- blue-gray eyes
- blue-gray color
- blue-gray foliage
The overwhelming colour palette is once again blue grey.
- The overwhelming colour palette is once again blue grey.
- And there's lots of comments from our OP clarifying the color is a medium blue grey, not close to white or any shade of cream.
Examples
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The poplar seemed not green, but blue-gray, in the relentless sun.
Fiction book (2001) -
About fifty meters further on, there was a break in the earth-soft verge where blue-grey gravel puddled onto the roadway.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her eyes were the luminous blue-gray of an ocean sky.
Fiction book (2001) -
I could tell she'd put a lot of thought into it; the blue-gray of the cloth perfectly matched my eyes.
Fiction book (1996) -
Her amazing blue-gray eyes met his with the kind of defiance that set Frank's teeth on edge.
Fiction book (1999) -
Three Apache helicopters fly low over the endless Texas landscape, blue-gray in the light of pre-dawn.
Fiction book (1997) -
The walls were blue-gray, pricked with thousands of tiny lights like strange drifting constellations.
Fiction book (1999) -
The city lay before me in a magnificent Cézanne of blue-grey and subtle oranges and greens.
Fiction book (1996) -
The squall fades on the horizon now, a slanting blue-gray column of rain curving down from a dwindling cloud.
Fiction book (1997) -
The walls are painted a soothing shade of blue-gray that complements the furniture.
Synonyms
A color that is mainly blue with some gray
A pale blue color with a slight grey tint
A dark blue-gray color like a wet stone or a storm sky
A grey color with a touch of blue
A blue color like the sky when clouds make it less bright
Having a slight blue color
Slightly blue in color like a pale sky
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Etymology
The word blue-gray is made from the simple parts blue and gray, meaning 'blue' plus 'gray'. So it describes a gray colour with a touch of blue, like the cloudy sky just before a storm.