GREENISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greenish mean? 

• GREENISH (adjective)
  The adjective GREENISH has 1 sense:

1. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

  Familiarity information: GREENISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREENISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

Synonyms:

dark-green; green; greenish; light-green

Context example:

green paint

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

greenishness (the property of being somewhat green)

 Context examples 

A greenish, crystalline compound with a faint amine smell and emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides when heated to decomposition.

(Ethylene Thiourea, NCI Thesaurus)

Then her husband turned to her wan-eyed and with a greenish pallor which subdued the snowy whiteness of his hair, and asked:—And must I, too, make such a promise, oh, my wife?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There were many people—men, women, and children—walking about, and these were all dressed in green clothes and had greenish skins.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A greenish, crystalline inorganic compound that produces toxic gases upon heating.

(Nickel Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)

What’s more, the perceived greenish hue of faces under LPS light deviates from what might be expected based on the spectrum of the LPS light itself, which gives a yellowish appearance.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

Once, as it moved, I thought I saw the glint of two terrible, greenish eyes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By contrast, every single participant matched 100 percent of the actors’ faces to greenish hues.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

He was clothed all in green, from his head to his feet, and even his skin was of a greenish tint.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

All this I shall some day write at fuller length, and amidst these more stirring days I would tenderly sketch in these lovely summer evenings, when with the deep blue sky above us we lay in good comradeship among the long grasses by the wood and marveled at the strange fowl that swept over us and the quaint new creatures which crept from their burrows to watch us, while above us the boughs of the bushes were heavy with luscious fruit, and below us strange and lovely flowers peeped at us from among the herbage; or those long moonlit nights when we lay out upon the shimmering surface of the great lake and watched with wonder and awe the huge circles rippling out from the sudden splash of some fantastic monster; or the greenish gleam, far down in the deep water, of some strange creature upon the confines of darkness.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)