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Definition: Blueish |
BlueishAdjective1. Tinged with blue or purple from cold or contusion; "the children's lips are blue from cold"; "a blue bruise". 2. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BlueishSynonyms: blue (adj), bluish (adj), dark-blue (adj), light-blue (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blueish |
| English words defined with "blueish": high-bush blueberry ♦ swamp blueberry ♦ tall bilberry ♦ Vaccinium corymbosum. (references) |
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| "Blue duck" by Sten E. Moe Commentary: "A blueish photo of a duck on the pier. Please send URL if used." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Blueish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Blueish" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blueish": blueish-grey, blueish-white. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blueish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | blåaktig (bluey, bluish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-i-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: bluish, bushel. | |
-2 letters: biles, blues, blush, buhls, heils, hilus, ileus, lieus, lubes, shiel. | |
-3 letters: bels, bile, bise, blue, buhl, bush, elhi, heil, hies, hubs, hues, isle, leis, libs, lies, lieu, lube, lues, lush, shul, slub, slue. | |
-4 letters: bel, bis, bus, els, hes, hie, his, hub, hue, lei, leu, lib, lie, lis, sei, sel, she. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-h-i-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bluefish, bushlike. | |
+2 letters: blueshift, busheling, published, publisher, publishes, republish, thuribles. | |
+3 letters: bluefishes, blueshifts, bluishness, bushelling, publishers, punishable. | |
+4 letters: blueshifted, bullfinches, bullishness, copublished, copublisher, copublishes, exhaustible, nailbrushes, publishable, republished, republisher, republishes, shipbuilder, thimblefuls, unblemished, unpublished. | |
+5 letters: ailurophobes, bluishnesses, bullfighters, copublishers, doublethinks, habitualness, republishers, republishing, shipbuilders, vanquishable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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