Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Somewhat blue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Blue in a small degree; somewhat blue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat blue.
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- adjective Having a tint or hue similar to the colour
blue . - adjective figuratively Somewhat
depressed ;sad .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ang is clouded in bluish light amidst tails of mist before a Khmer style temple structure.
Two Character Banners from M. Night Shyamalan’s THE LAST AIRBENDER – Collider.com 2010
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Josef was enveloped in bluish light and disappeared.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The van is described as a bluish-gray or silver 1994 Chevrolet Lumina Minivan with Illinois license plates:
unknown title 2009
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Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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He wasn't eating well and he spit up a little bit and then about Christmas Day and the day after Christmas, he spit up and turned yellow and kind of bluish around the mouth.
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In warm light colours also warm body colours make themselves felt in a pleasant way, whereas the low proportion of short-wave radiation of these light sources more or less kills cold colours such as bluish green, blue and purple.
2. Elements Frank Ponemunski 1991
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It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the facade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the facade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain.
The Time Machine 1906
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It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the facade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain.
Chapter 6 Herbert George 1898
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It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the facade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain.
The Time Machine Herbert George 1895
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