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say it: GREE-nish
greenish is an adjective meaning "of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass". It is pronounced /ˈɡɹinɪʃ/ — GREE-nish. It carries one recorded sense.
of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
“a green tree”
“green fields”
“green paint”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for greenish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.