brownish

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Editorial note

They went from a brownish theme that people complained about for years to now a blackish purple that is equally gaudy.

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Quick take

Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for brownish.

adjective

Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.

See also: chromatic, brown, dark-brown, colored

Example sentences

They went from a brownish theme that people complained about for years to now a blackish purple that is equally gaudy.

Every nightly blue gone, light sources broken, every shadow gone, ominous deep-black tree shadows converted into gray/brownish things, etc.

I also like the brownish urls on the current layout, just because it also serves to set apart each result.

I've owned several and without exception the cords turn brownish, get soft, and then ultimately fray.

It's the thick brownish-green branch that goes left near 0 AD.

Current lawn status: brownish from lack of rain and getting browner.

As a result, the widget presents a sort of pale orangish-brownish color as 'neutral' and all the slices related to hue and chroma are noticeably off.

I'm pretty sure that in Australia they managed to obliterate smoking, by replacing all brands with brownish packs with pictures of diseased lungs.

I interpret it as black getting colored colored brownish by the camera/lighting.

First, the brownish stone on the lower-right corner.

Edit: his blog entry implies RGB, and it looks like the average color is actually brownish grey, which would be highly unsurprising to anyone who has mixed paint.

Very rarely I use custom-filtered (brownish) noise to help with isolation.

Quote examples

They can perceive that the black is not a true black, by pixel value, but in order for the brownish color to "make sense" alongside the blue in the photograph is for the brownish areas to be representing black.

But having the "it" in the logo be brown, as well as the brownish background on the main page doesn't help.

If you approach anyone on the street, you will most likely get them in trouble and it's very unlikely for them to tell the truth (even "the veggies are kinda brownish" is subversion and by now they have seen what happens to their "subversive" neighbors and maybe family members).