From Middle English blewissh, blewisch (also Middle English bloysh), equivalent to blue + -ish.
bluish (comparative more bluish, superlative most bluish)
- Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue.
1978, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:Riding high on love's true bluish light
- (figuratively) Somewhat depressed; sad.
2009, John Wooden, Jay Carty, Coach Wooden One-On-One: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.
somewhat blue in color
- Armenian: կապտավուն (hy) (kaptavun)
- Asturian: azuláu (ast)
- Breton: arc'hlas (br), damc'hlas (br)
- Bulgarian: синкав (sinkav)
- Catalan: blavós (ca), blavenc (ca), blavís
- Czech: modravý
- Dutch: blauwig (nl)
- Erzya: сэняжа (seńaža)
- Esperanto: blueta
- Finnish: sinertävä (fi)
- French: bleuâtre (fr), bleuté (fr), légèrement bleu
- Galician: azulado, azulino
- Georgian: მოლურჯო (molurǯo), მოცისფრო (mocispro)
- German: bläulich (de)
- Hebrew: כְּחַלְחַל (he) m (k'khalkhal)
- Hungarian: kékes (hu)
- Ido: bluatra (io)
- Irish: scothghorm
- Italian: (somewhat dark blue) bluastro; (somewhat sky blue) azzurrastro, azzurrognolo
- Kalmyk: көквр (kökvr)
- Latvian: iezils, zilgans, iezilgans
- Marathi: निळसर (mr) (niḷsar)
- Nogai: коькшил (kökşil)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: blålig, blåaktig
- Nynorsk: blåleg, blåaktig
- Plautdietsch: bleiwlich
- Portuguese: azulado (pt)
- Romanian: albăstriu (ro), albăstrui (ro)
- Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun) blauent, (Sutsilvan, Puter) blovaint, (Surmiran) blavaint, (Vallader) blauaint
- Russian: (somewhat dark blue) синева́тый (ru) (sinevátyj); (somewhat sky blue) голубова́тый (ru) (golubovátyj)
- Shor: кӧгӱлдӱрӱм
- Slovak: modrastý
- Spanish: azulado (es)
- Swedish: blåaktig (sv)
- Turkish: gökçül (tr), mavimsi (tr), mavimtırak (tr)
- Volapük: blövilik (vo), (older term) yuliblik, (older term) luyulibik
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colloquial: somewhat depressed
