bluish black

1. 1.

   of black tinged with blue

   Synonymsblue-black

   Similarachromatic

Questions about bluish black

What does bluish black mean?

bluish black means "of black tinged with blue".

What is another word for bluish black?

Close synonyms include blue-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 bluish black a common word?

bluish 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.