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WASHY (washier, washiest)
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• WASHY (adjective)
The adjective WASHY has 2 senses:
1. overly diluted; thin and insipid
2. having lost freshness or brilliance of color
Familiarity information: WASHY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overly diluted; thin and insipid
Synonyms:
Context example:
weak tea
Similar:
dilute; diluted (reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having lost freshness or brilliance of color
Synonyms:
bleached; faded; washed-out; washy
Context example:
washy colors
Similar:
colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)
Context examples
His pale, wishy-washy eyes were swimming like lazy summer seas, though what blissful visions they beheld were beyond my imagination.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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