brownish
adj/ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/
Etymology From brown + -ish.
1
Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.
- The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Leopard Got His Spots”, in Just So Stories:
- Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.1942, Emily Carr, “Waterworks”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
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- Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- brownish, browny, brunneous, brunnescent
- Antonyms
- achromatic, colorless
- Derived terms
- brownishly, brownishness
- Hypernyms
- tinted
- Hyponyms
- castaneous, fulvous, russet, tawny