lightish
1 Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of lightish1
First recorded in 1650–60; light 1 + -ish 1
Origin of lightish2
Example Sentences
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Honestly, her quirkiness works a lot better on this lightish TV show than it did in those movies.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
Where many contraltos are endowed with the lightish, dusky equivalent of a viola, her voice — immense, deep, velvety and burnished — put a cello at her command.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2012
Robins usually build in a green bank at the foot of a large tree, and lay four or five lightish yellow or dusky eggs; but I have found their nests in thorn-bushes.
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon
Helenium.—Showy composites of free growth in lightish soil.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
In some, the gray predominates, interspersed with lightish yellow and white feathers upon the pullets.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
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