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
Shortly a lightish mass loomed up only a few yards distant.
From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Geoffrey H. Malins
His hair was of a good lightish brown, and not worn after any fashion.
From George Borrow The Man and His Books by Edward Thomas
She wore a lightish grey cloth frock and a wide-brimmed hat, beneath which a vast quantity of chestnut-coloured hair conspicuously appeared.
From Enter Bridget by Thomas Cobb
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