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bluish

[ UK /blˈuːɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫuɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
    October's bright blue weather
    October's bright blue weather
    a blue flame
    blue haze of tobacco smoke

How To Use bluish In A Sentence

  • He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
  • In warm light colours also warm body colours make themselves felt in a pleasant way, whereas the low proportion of short-wave radiation of these light sources more or less “kills” cold colours such as bluish green, blue and purple. 2. Elements
  • The head woman had a tame khanga tole or tufted guinea-fowl, with bluish instead of white spots. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
  • Her rapid pulse, high blood pressure, irregular breathing, and bluish discoloration of the skin all called for life-saving measures.
  • The tender centaureas are valued for summer bedding on account of their pure silvery or bluish tinted white foliage.
  • A bluish envelope of flame surrounds the particle as it burns.
  • The cigarette smoke hung like a thick bluish white haze throughout the room.
  • Its quality differs with its color, according as it is white, red, yellow, or bluish.
  • The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • I could see him clearly through his luminous bluish mist, his blue eyes watching me with worry.
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