iron blue

Questions about iron blue

What does iron blue mean?

iron blue means "slightly purplish or bluish dark grey". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for iron blue?

Close synonyms include steel grey, steel gray, Davy's grey, Davy's gray, Prussian blue. 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 iron blue a common word?

iron blue is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.