nigrescent

comparative more nigrescent · superlative most nigrescent

1. Approaching blackness; blackish, dark-coloured.First known use 18th c.

   Pomp of Words Moſt ſplendidly nigrescent

   1725, Thesaurus ænigmaticus

   2 more examples

   At night the temperature is 250 degrees below zero; by day it is the heat of boiling water. Yet the sun is but an intense circle of white aloft in a nigrescent sky.

   1958, Jefferson Howard Sutton, “Chapter 9”, in First on the Moon

   [T]he dark death roses came into bloom. I cut them and carried them to Thecla, nigrescent purple flecked with scarlet.

   1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 99

   Synonyms: black