bluish
adjective
somewhat blue.
blueish
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a variation of
bluish.
Example Sentences
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The resulting image is a blueish, red flowing assembly of peptides that looks like a river valley.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
In the right corner, two men embrace, the parchment tone distinct from the blueish, gridded expanse that spreads out from the center of the canvas, framing the edges just so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
Because blueish light tends to appear brighter to humans, one might be tempted to put on shades to prevent glare.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
For example, Earth’s sky is blue because small nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere preferentially scatter shorter, blueish wavelengths of light, whereas clouds appear white because their much larger water droplets scatter sunlight evenly.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2023
Grey wizened faces, watery eyes, blueish hungry-like lips these men and women had—a weird, hopeless-looking, toil-bent congregation of the have-nots.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
