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blueish

blueish is the alternative spelling of bluish.

Meaning of bluish

Adjective

bluish (comparative more bluish, superlative most bluish)

  1. Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue.
    • Riding high on love's true bluish light1978, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie
  2. (figuratively) Somewhat depressed; sad.
    • To this day, I usually read my Bible a couple of times a day, and I still enjoy attempting to express my feelings through poetry, especially when I'm feeling bluish.2009, John Wooden, Jay Carty, Coach Wooden One-On-One

Forms of blueish

comparativemore blueish
superlativemost blueish

Origin of blueish

From Middle English blewissh, blewisch, equivalent to blue + -ish.

Questions about blueish

What is blueish the alternative spelling of?
Blueish is the alternative spelling of bluish.

Words near blueish in the dictionary

  1. bluehairs
  2. bluehead
  3. blueheads
  4. blueing
  5. blueings
  6. blueish
  7. blueishness
  8. blueism
  9. bluejack
  10. bluejacked
  11. bluejacker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blueish (page history and authors); bluish (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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