bladish

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).

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Meanings

adjectivebladish (comparative more bladish, superlative most bladish)

comparative more bladish · superlative most bladish

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a blade (sharp edge of a knife or similar).

    […] a bladish flake of tachylite […] recovered from the tilted basal hardened sandy fine gravel ascribable to the second phase of this period.

    1985, The Journal of the Bihar Purāvid Parishad, volumes 9-10, page 13
  2. archaicResembling or characteristic of a blade (dashing young man).

    […] the smaller portrait painted a brisk, unentangled, young bachelor, gayly ranging up and down in the world; light-hearted, and a very little bladish perhaps; […]

    1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Origin

From blade + -ish.

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APA

bladish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bladish

MLA

“bladish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bladish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bladish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bladish.

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