yellowishly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With a colour resembling yellow.
Example Sentences
- "The skin becomes thinned and yellowishly discoloured at one point, gives way, and a large quantity of thick creamy pus escapes."
- ". . . a sky with every fading colour: blue-green, pale grey between green and blue, fuzzy hues of distant clouds that aren't clouds, yellowishly darkened by an expiring red."
- "Ploughman silently studied the two men for a moment or two longer, then smiled yellowishly, opened a desk drawer, and brought out a bottle of Gordon's gin."
Etymology
From yellowish + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more yellowishly (comparative)
most yellowishly (superlative)