BROWNISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brownish mean? 

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

1. of a color similar to that of wood or earth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWNISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a color similar to that of wood or earth

Synonyms:

brown; brownish; chocolate-brown; dark-brown

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

Symptoms include blood clots, and red or brownish urine in the morning.

(Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, NCI Dictionary)

There, sure enough, I perceived a number of flaky ashes, and round the edges a fringe of brownish powder, which had not yet been consumed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of fine granular yellowish-brownish pigment within the cytoplasm of the cells in a tissue sample.

(Intracytoplasmic Lipofuscin Present, NCI Thesaurus)

Skin on the hand, neck and forehead, visible through cutouts in a mask, appeared brownish yellow, not green, to participants.

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

Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his head.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under LPS lighting, all stimuli except faces appeared brownish yellow.

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