bluish

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; - Helen Hunt Jackson

From Middle English blewissh, blewisch (also Middle English bloysh), equivalent to blue + -ish.

"It was a bluish soil. — The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
But his hands were bluish with cold. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
It was filled with faint bluish light. — The Colors of Space, Marion Zimmer Bradley

blue, blueish

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