bluish-gray
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2.5
- adjective
- /ˈbluːɪʃ ɡreɪ/
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gris azulado
- Men wore narrow ties and bluish-gray suits; they flirted with their secretaries, they schemed, drank, and smoked in after-work Manhattan bars.
- turn bluish-gray
- bluish-gray light
Examples
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I was rummaging through the back of the car the other day when I happened upon an old hat, crushed and bleached by the sun into a bluish gray.
Blog text (26) -
She watched as he discarded three different outfits before settling on a midnight blue suit, white shirt, and bluish gray tie.
Fiction book (1992) -
But with Kira's eyes, this kind of slightly bluish grey just looks so good.
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His hair was jet black and flecked with bluish gray at the temples.
Fiction book (2001) -
Its feet and cere were pale yellow, and its beak was bluish gray, like slate.
Fiction book (1993) -
The little pests have a bluish-grey body and a yellow-brown, translucent shell.
Academic text (2000) -
Above: Some arctic foxes turn bluish gray, not white, in winter. "Blue" foxes are more common near the coast, where they sometimes climb rocky cliffs to prey on nesting shorebirds.
Academic text (1998) -
He wears dark bluish-gray over the back and halfway down the sides, bright buff on the belly, with a strip of dark gray, nearly black, separating the upper and under colors; this dividing stripe, however, is not very well defined.
Academic text (1994) -
His hair was jet black and flecked with bluish-gray at the temples.
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Thom's hair is a metallic bluish-gray color that matches the restaurant's old-fashioned tin ceiling.
Synonyms
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2.0
Gray with a little blue like the sky before a storm
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2.7
A color that is mainly blue with some gray
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4.8
A dark blue-gray color like a wet stone or a storm sky
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3.4
A blue color like the sky when clouds make it less bright
A gray color with a touch of blue
A dark blue-grey color artists use in painting
A dark grey color with a slight blue or purple tone
A dark color with a little purple or blue used in painting
How Blue
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Etymology
Bluish-gray is made of three parts: blue, -ish, and gray, where blue and gray are the colors and -ish means 'somewhat' or 'a little like'. So bluish-gray literally means 'a gray color with a little blue', like the sky just before dawn.