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Definition of Blackish
1. Adjective. Of something that is somewhat black. "Blackish clouds"
Definition of Blackish
1. a. Somewhat black.
Definition of Blackish
1. Adjective. somewhat black ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blackish
1. somewhat black [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackish
Literary usage of Blackish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"blackish-ash; orbits naked ; crown and throat blackish- ash ; in female, pale-ash ;
bill short, feeble; length five inches. Naples. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"Secondaries uniform blackish with yellow fringes. Beneath, primarie« blackish.
costa and fringes yellow: secondaries yellowish, with an outer darker liue. ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... blackish- ferruginous above the pale base; achene soft, whitish, oblong.
— Meadows and bogs, NH, Vt., and n. NY July, Aug. FIG. 303. 32. ..."
4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1907)
"Crown, nape, and inter scapular area, conspicuously blackish, the feathers
sparingly vermiculated and notched with sandy buff; basal portion of a few ..."
5. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"Antennae slender, rugose, pilose, blackish ; second segment yellowish, smooth
and slightly thickened on basal two-thirds, slightly longer than the ..."
6. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"... more or less rufous, the inner webs of the feathers with sometimes white bars;
underparts white or whitish, streaked or spotted with black or blackish, ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"and almost blackish green. Pale green olive trees, of a moderate height, descend
along the hills ; and, by their paleness and little round masses, ..."
8. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"blackish-ash; orbits naked ; crown and throat blackish- ash ; in female, pale-ash ;
bill short, feeble; length five inches. Naples. ..."
9. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"Secondaries uniform blackish with yellow fringes. Beneath, primarie« blackish.
costa and fringes yellow: secondaries yellowish, with an outer darker liue. ..."
10. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... blackish- ferruginous above the pale base; achene soft, whitish, oblong.
— Meadows and bogs, NH, Vt., and n. NY July, Aug. FIG. 303. 32. ..."
11. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1907)
"Crown, nape, and inter scapular area, conspicuously blackish, the feathers
sparingly vermiculated and notched with sandy buff; basal portion of a few ..."
12. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"Antennae slender, rugose, pilose, blackish ; second segment yellowish, smooth
and slightly thickened on basal two-thirds, slightly longer than the ..."
13. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"... more or less rufous, the inner webs of the feathers with sometimes white bars;
underparts white or whitish, streaked or spotted with black or blackish, ..."
14. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"and almost blackish green. Pale green olive trees, of a moderate height, descend
along the hills ; and, by their paleness and little round masses, ..."
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