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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bluish
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a reddish/greenish/bluish etc colour (=slightly red, green, blue etc)
▪ The glass used for bottles is often a greenish colour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tinge
▪ His green eyes were taking on a bluish tinge and hers were going green with so much exchanging of deep looks.
▪ The light had a cold bluish tinge and the air was cooler too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The patient's lips were bluish - I'd say she has a heart problem.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her hair was disorderly, and the color of her skin was bluish black, which is a sign of incurable leprosy.
▪ Her rapid pulse, high blood pressure, irregular breathing, and bluish discoloration of the skin all called for life-saving measures.
▪ His green eyes were taking on a bluish tinge and hers were going green with so much exchanging of deep looks.
▪ If you prefer silver, stick with bluish pinks and deeper shades.
▪ In the bluish light, he seemed far away, not yet a creature of flesh and blood.
▪ Mr Sammler, back walking the streets, which now were dark blue, a bluish glow from the street lamps.
▪ Overhead, a bulb casts an eerie bluish light.
▪ The bluish shadows beneath her eyes made the eyes themselves look enormous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluish

Bluish \Blu"ish\, a. Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins. ``Bluish mists.''
--Dryden. -- Blu"ish*ly, adv. -- Blu"ish*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bluish

late 14c., blewysh; see blue + -ish.

Wiktionary
bluish

a. 1 Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue. 2 (context figuratively English) Somewhat depressed; sad.

WordNet
bluish

adj. having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: blue, blueish, light-blue, dark-blue, blue-black]

Usage examples of "bluish".

The odd bluish beam of the flashlight made her seem even larger than she was, Asey thought.

It includes Alkali Blue, Naphthylamine Blacks, Naphthol Green B, Indian Yellow, Croceine A Z, Croceine Orange, Orange R, Brilliant Croceine M, Rose Bengale, Thiocarmine R, Soluble Blue, Formyl Violet S 4 B, Acid Green, Croceine Orange G, Carmoisin, Acid Violet 5 B, Fast Acid Violet 10 B, Fast Green Bluish, Rhodamine, Silk Blue, Victoria Black, Archil, Turmeric, Safranine, Auramine, Quinoline Yellow, Azoflavine, Victoria Blue and Bismarck Brown.

Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white-spotted blunt fin.

Before we had slept that night, and after Imnak had constructed our shelter, he removed from the supplies several strips of supple baleen, whale bone, taken from the baleen whale, the bluish blunt fin, which we had killed before taking the black Hunjer whale.

The path was shaded even more than the tall boxwoods explained, and the light had a bluish cast.

For some reason, she recalled that in the anatomical museum she had seen a model of the face of a man who had suffered from lupus: a face scarred by bluish furrows and pimples, with irregular, corroded lips, eyebrows in small clumps, and red eyelids without eyelashes.

The strange immobility of his swollen cheeks denaturalized his broad, good face, all the features of which disappeared under the dead, bluish mask.

The light that is bluish and goldish, shimmering and somehow cold, travelled a little ahead of me but not very far.

Besides the bluish deposit Ken had noted on the metal, which he was now able to show contained oxides, there was a looser encrustation in several more protected spots which gave a definite potassium spectrumone of the few that Ken could readily recognizeand also a distinct odor of carbon bisulfide when heated.

The oxide of niobium dissolved in a bead of microcosmic salt gives a bluish colour in the reducing flame.

The ornithoid looked up and saw the humans, just as a beam of bluish light burned past his face and obliterated a patch of leaves behind him.

His face was still raddled with fatigue, the dark eyes still underscored by bluish purple smears, the skin pale and drawn, but he was smiling at Lannon with an expression of loyal affection.

Scrats and grayjays were just thin flashes, brown for the scrats and bluish gray for the grayjays.

The bright light faded from the castle, and all the landscape toned down into bluish gray.

There was an almost bluish color to the sky now, the mists of thousands of tonnes of water and air boiling up, turning the rockpile into a comet.