Meanings
comparative more blackish · superlative most blackish
- somewhat black
Hác Sá (Black Sand) is the most popular beach in Macau. The sand is indeed a grey to blackish colour and makes the water look somewhat dirty (especially at the tide line), but it's perfectly clean.
2008, Andrew Stone, Chung Wah Chow, Reggie Ho, “Macau”, in Hong Kong & Macau: City Guide, 13th edition, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332, column 1Synonyms: nigrescent
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivesomewhat black
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof something that is somewhat black
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishblackysshe
- Englishblackish
From Middle English blackysshe, blakkyssh, equivalent to black + -ish.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan negrós, negrenc
- negróssomewhat black
- negrencsomewhat black
Danish sortladen, sortlig
- sortladensomewhat black
- sortligsomewhat black
- sortagtigsomewhat black
Esperanto nigreta
- nigretasomewhat black
Finnish mustahko
- mustahkosomewhat black
French noirâtre
- noirâtresomewhat black
German schwärzlich
- schwärzlichsomewhat black
Hebrew שחרחר
- שחרחר (shkharkhar)somewhat black
Hindi श्यामल, काला
- श्यामल (śyāmal)somewhat black
- काला (kālā)somewhat black
Hungarian feketés
- feketéssomewhat black
Indonesian kehitam-hitaman
- kehitam-hitamansomewhat black
Irish scothdhubh
- scothdhubhsomewhat black
Italian nerastro
- nerastrosomewhat black
Latin subniger
- subnigersomewhat black
Latvian melngans, iemelns
- melnganssomewhat black
- iemelnssomewhat black
- melnīgssomewhat black
Māori pūmangu
- pūmangusomewhat black
Persian سیاهی
- سیاهی (siyâhi)somewhat black
Polish czarnawy
- czarnawysomewhat black
Portuguese meio negro/preto, um tanto negro/preto
- meio negro/pretosomewhat black
- um tanto negro/pretosomewhat black
- negruscosomewhat black
Russian чернова́тый
- чернова́тый (černovátyj)somewhat black
Spanish negruzco, negrizco
- negruzcosomewhat black
- negrizcosomewhat black
Turkish siyahımtırak, siyahımsı
- siyahımtıraksomewhat black
- siyahımsısomewhat black
Ukrainian чорнявий
- чорнявий (čornjavyj)somewhat black
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with blackish
All rhymes →Cite this entry
blackish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blackish
“blackish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blackish. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blackish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blackish.
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