INKY (inkier, inkiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: inkier    , inkiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does inky mean? 

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

1. of the color of black ink

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INKY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the color of black ink

Synonyms:

ink-black; inky; inky-black

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

Derivation:

ink (a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing)

inkiness (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white))

 Context examples 

It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Not only did he guess it by the fact that the second finger of her right hand was no longer inky, but she spent her evenings downstairs now, was met no more among newspaper offices, and studied with a dogged patience, which assured him that she was bent on occupying her mind with something useful, if not pleasant.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The tears coursed down her cheeks—not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)