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brownish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-? Proto-Germanic *brūnaz Proto-West Germanic *brūn Old English brūn Middle English broun English brown Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English brownish From brown + -ish.

Meanings

1. Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.
   • Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
   • Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft. 1942, Emily Carr, “Waterworks”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
   • The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […] 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Leopard Got His Spots”, in Just So Stories:

Forms

Antonyms

achromatic · colorless

Deriveds

brownishness · brownishly

Hypernyms

tinted

Hyponyms

russet · fulvous · castaneous · tawny

Synonyms

browny · brownish · browny · brunnescent · brunneous

Translations (36)

ro maroniu (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · sv brunaktig (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · ru бурова́тый (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · de bräunlich (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · fr brunâtre (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · nb brunlig (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · tr kahvemsi (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · la brūnulus (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · tr kahvemtırak (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · hu barnás (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · nl bruinachtig (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · ca brunenc (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · lv iebrūns (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · tr bozlak (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · it brunastro (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · es pardusco (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · vo braunilik (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · et pruunikas (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · lv brūngans (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · eo bruneta (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · xal күрңтр (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · lv brūnīgs (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · ka მოყავისფრო (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · pt amarronzado (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · tr bozumtırak (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · tr bozumsu (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · fi ruskehtava (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · nn brunleg (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · pl brązowawy (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · cs hnědavý (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · ga scothdhonn (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · ru коричнева́тый (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · fo brúnligur (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · tr kumral (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · tr kahverengimsi (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown) · nl bruinig (of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown)