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
His slightly irregular features were covered with large brown freckles, and on his upper lip was a volunteer crop of lightish fuzz, which might, in time, become a moustache.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
Belly brown and white; wings brown, with white spots; third quill-feather, longest; legs feathered, lightish brown colour; tail brownish white, marked with transverse bars of a darker brown; eye prominent; iris blue.
From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George
I think in my earlier article I said something like this: "Mr. Chesterton has so remarkably red a face that his smallish moustache seems lightish in color against it."
From Turns about Town by Holliday, Robert Cortes
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