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TANNISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tannish mean?
• TANNISH (adjective)
The adjective TANNISH has 1 sense:
1. of a color resembling tan
Familiarity information: TANNISH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a color resembling tan
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Context examples
As expected, under the white light, people matched oranges to orange, strawberries and tomatoes to reds, and faces and hands to some variation of brown or tannish pink.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
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