yellowish
adjUK /ˈjɛləʊɪʃ/ · US /ˈjɛlɔʊɪʃ/
Etymology From Middle English ȝelowisch; equivalent to yellow + -ish.
1
Somewhat yellow in colour.
- But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.1955 January 23, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, pages 18-19:
- A biologist has named a newly discovered species of moth after our next president. The Neopalpa donaldtrumpi is a wee little creature found in parts of California and Baja, Mexico. […] It seems nature favors fancy golden hairdos as much as the man himself (who could forget China’s beloved Trump bird?), because the N. donaldtrumpi sports a very familiar-looking crown of yellowish scales.2017 January 18, AJ Willingham, “New moth named in honor of Donald Trump”, in CNN:
- Antonyms
- achromatic, colorless
- Hyponyms
- aureate, lemony, ochroleucous, sandy