gray-blue
2
2.7
- adjective
- /ɡreɪ blu/
- US
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- Waves made horizontal lines of light across the gray-blue water, cut by the wake of the boat from Tierra Flores Island.
- gray-blue eyes
- gray-blue sky
- gray-blue color
I love the Gray blue color of this.
- I love the Gray blue color of this.
- My favorite are the the Gray blue Frenchies.
- It's just a really pretty muted grey blue and I just think that's really, really nice for spring.
- The inside is a Gray blue color.
Examples
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Today he wore a gray-blue sport coat over a royal-blue dress shirt, stonewashed jeans, and cowboy boots.
Fiction book (1999) -
The eyebrows were strong, but his large gray-blue eyes were soft, with tiny laugh lines in the corners.
Fiction book (2002) -
I love the Gray blue color of this.
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The inside is a Gray blue color.
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I kept looking straight into those gray-blue eyes of his.
Fiction book (1997) -
Her eyes were gray-blue like mine.
Fiction book (1990) -
The use of the gray-blue background really makes all the colors of the flowers pop.
Blog text (13) -
It's just a really pretty muted grey blue and I just think that's really, really nice for spring.
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A heron flew past them down the river, its gray-blue wings the color of Ella's eyes.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sky was painted in a stunning shade of gray-blue as the sun began to set.
Synonyms
5
2.0
Gray with a little blue like the sky before a storm
2
3.7
A pale blue color with a slight grey tint
1
3.5
A blue color with a grey tone like a metal plate
1
4.8
A dark blue-gray color like a wet stone or a storm sky
1
2.5
A grey color with a touch of blue
1
3.4
A blue color like the sky when clouds make it less bright
How Gray
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gray-blue comes from joining the two simple color words gray and blue. Think of blue paint 'softened' by gray, like the evening sky, which is why it means a shade of blue with a tinge of grey.