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# whitish

adjective (whitish)

«whitish» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Almost white, or a little bit white; pale in colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/#m1)

### In the lessons

Used in science descriptions, nature notes and stories when something is not pure white: whitish flowers, a whitish sky, a whitish powder in an experiment. It helps describe exactly what you see. Phrases: "whitish grey", "a whitish powder".

### Examples

- The mushroom had a whitish cap. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/#x1)
- A whitish powder was left after the water evaporated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/#x2)
- The sky was a whitish grey before the snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/#x3)
- The caterpillar had whitish stripes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/#x4)
- His face went whitish with fear. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/#x5)
- The rock had whitish lines of quartz in it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/#x6)
- There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam’s eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/#x7)

### Note

Adjective from "white" plus -ish (the e is dropped). The ending -ish means "a bit, rather", as in greenish, smallish, tallish. Also spelled "whiteish", but "whitish" is the usual spelling.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «whitish» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitish/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«whitish» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/whitish.html) on Mova free.