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bluey

bluey

5.4
Slightly blue in color like a pale sky
  • adjective
  • /ˈbluːi/
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  • The walls are painted a lovely bluey shade that brightens the room.

It's that perfect amount of bluey greeny mint.

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Examples

  • I wear trainers, don't drive very often, and live in a house that's more bluey-grey than beige, though.

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  • It is just a bluey, silvery kind of pigment.

  • Oh, turns it into like a like a bluey brown almost.

  • I think I'm going to take that like bluey shade just in the middle.

  • It has a nice bluey green shift.

  • It's that perfect amount of bluey greeny mint.

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  • It's like a kind of grey, bluey, purpley.

  • I don't like the bluey white ones, but the ones here are much much more orangey and I really like them.

  • I went for the Violete very iridescent bluey pink colour again.

  • So you may need to go back in and just conceal any of the bluey purpleness or darkness around your eyes.

Synonyms

bluish
vsbluey
19 1.2

Slightly blue in color

is the same meaning but written with a different final letter pattern
blueish
vsbluey
  • US
1 1.8

Having a slight blue color

is the same meaning but written with a different ending that uses y

Antonyms

colorless
  • US
12 2.9

Having very little or no color

How Blue

navy
69 1.0
dark blue
16 1.0
blue
∞ 1.0
bluey
5.4
bluish
19 1.2

Surface Forms

bluey positive
blueier comparative
blueiest superlative

Morphology

bluey = blue (transparent) = blue + y

The adjective meaning is directly formed by adding the productive adjectival suffix '-y' to 'blue', yielding 'somewhat blue' or 'having a bluish tint'.

Etymology

The word bluey is simply blue with the ending -y, which means 'somewhat' or 'a bit'. So bluey describes something that is a little blue or has a bluish tint.