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Synonyms for blackish

Grammar : Adj

Spell : blak

Phonetic Transcription : blæk

Définition of blackish

Origin : mid-15c., from black (adj.) + -ish.

adj of darkest color

Example sentences :

It burns like oil, is of a pungent scent, and a blackish color.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 » by Various

"He wants to say, 'Have a little drink, gentlemen,'" said the blackish man.
Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos

He followed the bits of ore to a narrow stringer of blackish rock.
Extract from : « When the West Was Young » by Frederick R. Bechdolt

Melanism: an abnormal or unusual darkening: a suffusion with blackish.
Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith

It was an animal about the size of a wolf, and of a dark grey or blackish colour.
Extract from : « The Desert Home » by Mayne Reid

The tail, however, is blackish, and the face nearly naked and flesh-coloured.
Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston

Of the other species, some have the fur of a blackish colour, some of a ruddy hue.
Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston

Once upon a time there was a little, greenish, blackish worm.
Extract from : « Woodland Tales » by Ernest Seton-Thompson

The roads, always dark with coal-dust, were full of blackish mud.
Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence

The Mold of these Islands in the Valley, is blackish in some places, but in most red.
Extract from : « The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898--Volume 39 of 55 » by Various

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