somewhat black
blackish
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for blackish.
Editorial note
If it's darkened to a blackish purple and is very hard to the touch, it is probably over-ripened.
Quick take
somewhat black
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for blackish.
adjective
somewhat black
See also: achromatic, colorless
Example sentences
If it's darkened to a blackish purple and is very hard to the touch, it is probably over-ripened.
They went from a brownish theme that people complained about for years to now a blackish purple that is equally gaudy.
John Bull and Uncle Sam have got another blackish eye publicitywise from this affair.
Also, I've noticed other black clothing, T-shirts etc., will often tend towards a blackish magenta on harsh washing.
And they are blackish on some lighter gray or green - light mode.
I think you can see the curvature of the earth and the sky above you is dark / blackish.
If you've ever tried using a site whose link style is 'non-underlined, blackish blue', you'll understand the problem, particularly if you suffer from colour blindness.
It's a totally unreadable black text on a blackish space image.
What happened is that they have found a place with chromite and they have believed that they have found magnetite, because both are heavy blackish stones.
Sorry, I couldn't get past the terrible whitish text on blackish background.
I can see how someone might think the black could be gold, due to the shimmer in some places (although it still mostly looks blackish).
Once you relax the invariants a bit, it becomes much easier to delete from your reddish-blackish trees:) If you don't have to implement deletion, things are already a lot easier.
Quote examples
Is this another one of those opensource project gone wrong, that when they lose the user base because of this gray(blackish) i would say) “new terms” they apologise and try to come back… often too late?
Would be nice to have an explanation what exactly went wrong - I can see that graph 1 is needlessly "3D" which actually obscures the information, I can see that graphs 3 and 4 are just plain useless, and graphs 6 and 9 just hide the information by being 3D, but what's the problem with graph 5 (except that the caption is way too long, and maybe the blackish colouring hides the standard dev-bar)?
If the explanation was "air is blue" then the naive expectation would be that sun would appear blue against blackish background, basically the image of sun is being filtered through the atmosphere; if sun is white and air is blue then white filtered through blue should be blue?
You can produce "something" --- but it will usually be a blackish/gray mess that is hard to re-color with variable viscosity, melting point and other properties that make it hard to mold in mass --- and the result probably won't look like something that should end up in your kid's mouth.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use blackish in a sentence?
If it's darkened to a blackish purple and is very hard to the touch, it is probably over-ripened.
What does blackish mean?
somewhat black
What part of speech is blackish?
blackish is commonly used as adjective.