at first blush

1. 1.

   as a first impression

   “at first blush the offer seemed attractive”

   Synonymswhen first seen

Questions about at first blush

What does at first blush mean?

at first blush means "as a first impression".

What is another word for at first blush?

Close synonyms include when first seen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is at first blush a common word?

at first blush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.