teal
Having a bluish-green colourHaving a bluish-green colour.
» His garish new suit was teal.
58mph · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesHaving a bluish-green colour.
petrolblau, petrol
of a bluish shade of green
Examples
4 sentencesHis garish new suit was teal.
I'm in love with that teal gemstone.
deIch habe mich in diesen grünblauen Edelstein verliebt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen · CC BY 2.0 FR
Nyle is a teal monkey with brown eyes and mint highlights.
"Is this green?" "It's more of a teal."
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with WestFrom Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. Compare feal and heal for similar phonological development.
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Forms
more teal, most tealSynonyms
2 synonyms- of a bluish shade of green:bluish greenblue-green
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.