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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pinkish
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ pinkish-lavender flowers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Green or yellow skin with pinkish blue base.
▪ Grolux tubes are great for promoting plant growth, but they do give everything a pinkish tinge.
▪ He had watched it in early May, as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton.
▪ Roast for about 1 hour until the meat is pinkish.
▪ Scallops come in two sizes: the large white cubes from sea scallops and the smaller pinkish cubes from bay scallops.
▪ The same materials, thrown into the Martian atmosphere by strong winds, give the Martian sky a pinkish color.
▪ They are pinkish grey, and the small worms may be seen partly protruding from their surfaces.
▪ When he opened his eyes again he was staring at a pinkish whirlpool running into the drain.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pinkish

Pinkish \Pink"ish\, a. Somewhat pink.

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Wiktionary
pinkish

a. Somewhat pink.

WordNet
pinkish

adj. of a light shade of red [syn: pink]

Usage examples of "pinkish".

Alucius expected the pinkish force to appear, but the manifestation of Talent that he felt was mainly purple, with but an overshade of pink, and felt even more evil.

The sky, a pinkish blue, outlined the city of Shallen rising from the water.

Steely-white ovoids with a high unworldly hum were ascending two four six from beyond the arid pinkish mountains, catching the light of the unrisen sun: starships, archons jealous and watchful.

Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper I Lahaina, Maui, 1854 The warm, coarse beach sand was the odd pinkish color of the squirrelfish, the ocean as deep an aqua as the bluefin trevally.

The oglers drew back in dismay, some reaching for the pinkish crystals that all of them wore.

As Cuivre sank lower in the sky, the water began to take on the pinkish tones of evening.

The sleeves of her blouse, wadded and discolored, were pinkish from blood that had seeped out of her pores along with copious fever sweat.

A pinkish light shone from the bronze lampstand, flooding the corner of the room.

The fragrant plumeria with its petals of creamy white and pinkish red.

Almost all of them still sported facades of pinkish plaster, but some were ornamented with a black slatelike stone.

Standing in the high aerie, overlooking the drab and pinkish countryside, the duke pointed out the local thermals and upturns, warned of downdrafts, and suggested a route to the higher, sun-bright locales with a good chance for goats, the most sporting of quarry.

She led me through the left doorway into a smaller room with bright pink walls, a pinkish grey floor and the same bright ceiling.

The stocky, fabricked pylons terminated in great pinkish objects with five digits apiece splaying out before them.

The cells of the glands contain bright pink fluid, charged with granules or with globular masses of pinkish pulpy matter.

The mouth was thin-lipped, the cheekbones broad, the nose short and snubbed, the chin dented, the skin pinkish and faintly freckled, the brows and lashes as gold as the hair.