YOUNGISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does youngish mean? 

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

1. somewhat young

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNGISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Somewhat young

Similar:

immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)

 Context examples 

His face was burned of a reddish colour, as bright as a flower-pot, and in spite of his age (for he was only forty at the time of which I speak) it was shot with lines, which deepened if he were in any way perturbed, so that I have seen him turn on the instant from a youngish man to an elderly.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Youngish, sir—not over thirty.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)