darkish
[dahr-kish]
- slightly dark: a darkish color.
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Origin of darkish
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run-down, shabby, dilapidated, drab, dreary, dirty, grimy, seedy, funereal, black, brown, dark, dusky, tan, tawny, brunet, darkish, swart, broken-down, colorlessExamples from the Web for darkish
Historical Examples
He used to be darkish iron-grey, but his hair went snow-white in a fortnight.
A Set of SixJoseph Conrad
The animal had small eyes, and was of darkish color, almost black.
A Treasury of Eskimo TalesClara Kern Bayliss
Over there, coming through that darkish spot between the foothills?
Across the MesaJarvis Hall
Perhaps she had been sitting over the fire in a darkish room.
PeterkinMary Louisa Molesworth
Indeed it is, Bellew, especially when the night happens to be also darkish.
Wrecked but not RuinedR.M. Ballantyne