greenish blue
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- noun
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azul verdoso
- Chanda's first impression was of a broad area just tall enough for the five of them to stand upright, and of new colors for this starcraft—the walls glowed a soft greenish-blue.
- greenish blue eyes
- soft greenish blue
Examples
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A single greenish-blue light hung over the door of the distant hangar.
Fiction book (1991) -
The malachite green canals, the greenish blue of the Italian skies, the gleaming domes, the white pigeons.
Fiction book (2000) -
I see the greenish-blue waters.
Fiction book (1994) -
You know them in blue and since I have greenish blue eyes, you can see a stroke of green and then it starts blue.
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He had greenish-blue eyes, brown hair with some gray coming in, and a rather large nose.
Fiction book (2000) -
Its walls were the same soft greenish-blue as the first room they'd encountered, but it was much darker.
Fiction book (2002) -
Nessie had greenish-blue scales and flippers on her side.
Fiction book (2000) -
The shell had a soft greenish-blue tinge with a faint creamy swirl design.
Fiction book (2002) -
The shell had a soft greenish blue tinge with a faint creamy swirl design.
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If you're after tranquility, use a cool, neutral shade, like DKC29, a greenish blue that evokes moonlight.
Synonyms
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2.7
A blue-green color often used for clothes or walls
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3.7
A green-blue color like the water in a tropical sea
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2.3
A light bluish-green color like sea water
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3.7
A deep, bright blue color with a little green in it
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4.6
A pale blue-green color like the sea
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A color that is a mix of blue and green
A blue-green color like fresh pine leaves
A bright greenish-blue color like a peacock's feathers
A blue-green color like the sea
Green with a small blue tone
Antonyms
How Green
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a shade of blue with a noticeable tinge of green' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'greenish' (somewhat green) with 'blue' (the color). This adjectival color-combination is a straightforward compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Greenish blue comes from the idea of adding a little green to blue. Imagine mixing paints or looking at shallow sea water where the blue looks a bit green, so it means 'a shade of blue with a touch of green'.