WHITISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whitish mean? 

• WHITISH (adjective)
  The adjective WHITISH has 2 senses:

1. resembling milk in color; not clear

2. of something having a color tending toward white

  Familiarity information: WHITISH used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling milk in color; not clear

Synonyms:

milklike; milky; whitish

Context example:

milky glass

Similar:

opaque (not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of something having a color tending toward white

Synonyms:

off-white; whitish

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

 Context examples 

Again a whitish object gleamed before me: it was a gate—a wicket; it moved on its hinges as I touched it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A whitish, crystalline, inorganic compound that forms toxic fumes of cadmium oxides when heated.

(Cadmium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia and kept in captivity since 1919, these hamsters exhibit a whitish/grey/brown coat color with a black stripe down the spine.

(Chinese Hamster, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia and kept in captivity since 1919, these hamsters exhibit a whitish/grey/brown coat color with a black stripe down the spine, and have a life span of two to three years.

(Chinese Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)

First he took from his bag a mass of what looked like thin, wafer-like biscuit, which was carefully rolled up in a white napkin; next he took out a double-handful of some whitish stuff, like dough or putty.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was long, whitish, and blotched with pimples, the nose flattened, and the lower jaw projecting, with a bristle of coarse whiskers round the chin.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)