whitish

«whitish» in Mova's school dictionary: Almost white, or a little bit white; pale in colour — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (whitish)

meaning for a pupil

Almost white, or a little bit white; pale in colour. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science descriptions, nature notes and stories when something is not pure white: whitish flowers, a whitish sky, a whitish powder in an experiment. It helps describe exactly what you see. Phrases: "whitish grey", "a whitish powder".

examples

• The mushroom had a whitish cap. tree →
• A whitish powder was left after the water evaporated. tree →
• The sky was a whitish grey before the snow. tree →
• The caterpillar had whitish stripes. tree →
• His face went whitish with fear. tree →
• The rock had whitish lines of quartz in it. tree →
• There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam’s eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell. tree →

note

Adjective from "white" plus -ish (the e is dropped). The ending -ish means "a bit, rather", as in greenish, smallish, tallish. Also spelled "whiteish", but "whitish" is the usual spelling.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «whitish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.