blue-black

1. 1.

   of black tinged with blue

   Synonymsbluish black

   Similarachromatic

Questions about blue-black

What does blue-black mean?

blue-black means "of black tinged with blue".

How many syllables are in blue-black?

blue-black has 2 syllables: blue--black. The stress falls on "blue-".

What is another word for blue-black?

Close synonyms include bluish black. 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 blue-black a common word?

blue-black 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.