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blue-grey

blue-grey is the alternative spelling of blue-gray.

Meaning of blue-gray

Adjective

blue-gray (comparative more blue-gray, superlative most blue-gray)

  1. Of a bluish grey color.
    • With flutters of white showing in his big blue-gray wings, he dropped from twig to twig1840, Patten Beard, “Peter of the Wild Rose-Tree”, in St. nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume 41, part 2
    Synonyms:
    gray-blue, grey-blue, blae

Forms of blue-grey

comparativemore blue-grey
superlativemost blue-grey

Origin of blue-grey

From blue + grey.

Questions about blue-grey

What is blue-grey the alternative spelling of?
Blue-grey is the alternative spelling of blue-gray.

Words near blue-grey in the dictionary

  1. Blue-Green alliances
  2. blue-green bacteria
  3. blue-green bacterium
  4. blue-green deployment
  5. blue-greens
  6. blue-grey
  7. blue-hair
  8. blue-hairs
  9. blue-headed vireo
  10. blue-headed wagtail
  11. blue-headed wagtails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue-grey (page history and authors); blue-gray (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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