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# pinkish

«pinkish» in Mova's school dictionary: **Slightly pink; a colour with a little pink in it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Slightly pink; a colour with a little pink in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinkish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in art and science descriptions: a pinkish sky at sunset, pinkish flowers, pinkish skin. The ending «-ish» means «a bit» or «roughly», as in reddish, tallish, sevenish.

### examples

- The sky turned pinkish at sunset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinkish/#x1)
- The prawn turned pinkish when it was cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinkish/#x2)
- Litmus paper can go pinkish in weak acid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinkish/#x3)
- Her cheeks were pinkish from the cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinkish/#x4)
- The flowers are white with pinkish edges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinkish/#x5)
- Cook the chicken until it is no longer pinkish inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pinkish/#x6)

### note

Adjective, not graded (we say «more pinkish» rarely). The suffix «-ish» softens a word: «sevenish» means about seven o'clock. Food safety: chicken should not be pinkish in the middle.

### Trees and pragmatics

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