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# greenish

«greenish» in Mova's school dictionary: **a little bit green, or of a colour close to green** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (greenish)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Greenish means a little bit green, or of a colour close to green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#m1)

2) Greenish can describe a face that looks pale and ill, as if about to be sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art and science, «-ish» softens a colour word: greenish, bluish, reddish. In stories, a character who turns «greenish» is feeling sick, e.g. on a boat.

### examples

- The pond water looked greenish and murky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#x1)
- After the roller coaster, Sam's face went greenish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#x2)
- The old coin had a greenish crust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#x3)
- Mix a little yellow into blue for a greenish colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#x4)
- The frog's skin was greenish brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#x5)
- The bread had greenish mould on it, so we binned it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#x6)
- He was clothed all in green, from his head to his feet, and even his skin was of a greenish tint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/#x7)

### note

No comparative usually. «-ish» means «somewhat». Copper turns greenish when it reacts with air (verdigris).

### In the corpora

- [An over-boiled egg can get a greenish ring around the yolk, where iron from the yolk joins sulphur from the white.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/6/)
- [Blueberries hold the same kind of colour substance as red cabbage, so too much baking soda in the batter turns them greenish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/36-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «greenish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greenish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.