blackish

English

Etymology

From Middle English blackysshe, blakkyssh, equivalent to black +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈblækɪʃ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ækɪʃ

Adjective

blackish (comparative more blackish, superlative most blackish)

1. somewhat black
   • 2008, Andrew Stone, Chung Wah Chow, Reggie Ho, “Macau”, in Hong Kong & Macau: City Guide‎^[1], 13th edition, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332, column 1:

     Hác Sá (Black Sand) is the most popular beach in Macau. The sand is indeed a grey to blackish colour and makes the water look somewhat dirty (especially at the tide line), but it's perfectly clean.

Antonyms

• whitish

Coordinate terms

• grayish (greyish)

Derived terms

• blackish-gray antshrike
• blackishly
• blackishness

Translations

somewhat black

• Armenian: սևավուն (hy) (sewavun)
• Asturian: anegratáu
• Catalan: negrós (ca), negrenc
• Esperanto: nigreta
• French: noirâtre (fr)
• Georgian: მოშავო (mošavo)
• German: schwärzlich (de)
• Hebrew: שחרחר (he) (shkharkhar)
• Hungarian: feketés (hu)
• Indonesian: kehitam-hitaman (id)
• Irish: scothdhubh
• Italian: nerastro (it)
• Kalmyk: харвтр (xarvtr)
• Kangean: celeng
• Kazakh: қаралау (qaralau)
• Latin: subniger
• Latvian: melngans, iemelns, melnīgs
• Maori: pūmangu
• Marathi: काळपट (kāḷpaṭ), काळसर (kāḷsar)
• Persian: سیاهی (fa) (siyâhi)
• Polish: czarnawy (pl)
• Portuguese: meio negro/preto, um tanto negro/preto, negrusco
• Russian: чернова́тый (ru) (černovátyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: crnkast (sh)
• Shor: қарамдық
• Spanish: negruzco (es)
• Turkish: siyahımtırak (tr), siyahımsı (tr)
• Ukrainian: чорнявий (čornjavyj)
• Volapük: blägilik (vo)