bluish adj 1: of the color intermediate between green and violet; 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" [syn: {blue}, {bluish}, {blueish}]
Bluish \Blu"ish\, a. Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins. "Bluish mists." --Dryden. -- {Blu"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Blu"ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]