BLUE-GRAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue-gray mean? 

• BLUE-GRAY (adjective)
  The adjective BLUE-GRAY has 1 sense:

1. of grey tinged with blue

  Familiarity information: BLUE-GRAY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE-GRAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of grey tinged with blue

Synonyms:

blue-gray; blue-grey; bluish-gray; bluish-grey

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

 Context examples 

The eyes were blue-gray under great black tufts, very clear, very critical, and very masterful.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A measurement of the Dohle bodies (blue-gray, basophilic, leukocyte inclusions located in the peripheral cytoplasm of neutrophils) in a biological specimen.

(Dohle Body Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Its hard, short-haired, close-fitting coat comes in black, black and tan, blue-gray, red, fawn and white.

(Doberman Pinscher, NCI Thesaurus)