blueish

1. 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”

   “a blue flame”

   “blue haze of tobacco smoke”

   Synonymsbluebluish

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of blueish

comparative

blueisher·

superlative

blueishest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blueish

What does blueish mean?

blueish means "of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky".

How many syllables are in blueish?

blueish has 2 syllables: blu-eish. The stress falls on "blu". In IPA it is /ˈbluɪʃ/.

What is another word for blueish?

Close synonyms include blue, bluish. 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 blueish a common word?

blueish 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.

What rhymes with blueish?

1 word rhymes with blueish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.