Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Somewhat green.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Somewhat green; having a tinge of green: as, a greenish yellow.
- Somewhat raw and inexperienced.
Wiktionary
- adj. Somewhat green.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Somewhat green; having a tinge of green.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
Etymologies
- green + -ish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It was KBR that provided items like lobster and ice cream, not some imagined long support tail of men and women in greenish cammies.”
““I am captain greenish in command of the melnorme starship; ‘Inevitably successful under all circumstances’ … I bid you a formal welcome captain.””
“But to this scale of experimental blues, other colours must be added: the poppy-red of the Spahis 'tunics, and various other less familiar colours – grey, and a certain greenish khaki – the use of which is due to the fact that the cloth supply has given out and that all available materials are employed.”
“The flowers are described as greenish-yellow, so that they are not likely to add much to the beauty of the plant, which is recommended because of the attractiveness of its stem and spines.”
“The rosettes are somewhat flattened and numerous, and give the idea of greenish-white flowers.”
“There are many references to the down on the lips, which is described as greenish (sometimes bluish) and compared to herbage.”
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
“An achromatic stimulus was still less likely to be classified as greenish following sleep, with no sta¬tistical difference in the magnitude of the resetting in each eye.”
“They get stuck in my teeth the same way, but they're crunchy and bitter with some kind of greenish guts inside, and the whole time I'm eating them they're buzzing and trying to jump out my mouth.”
“They're kind of greenish-blue, peanut-looking things.”
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World
“James had a sudden hallucinatory vision: a young man he had once seen, a patient at a mental hospital, black-haired, with "greenish" skin, sitting on a bench against the wall, his legs pressed up against his chest, moving only his eyes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘greenish’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 282 more...
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green phrases/ words
green,how its used
green acres, green activist, green alder, green-and-gold, green and pale, green and wan, green anole, green apron, green architecture, green arrow, green ash, green audit and 393 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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