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Webster 1913 Edition

Whitish

Whit′ish

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Adj.

[From

.]

1.

Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.

2.

(Bot.)

Covered with an opaque white powder.

Webster 1828 Edition

Whitish

WHITISH

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Adj.

[from white.] Somewhat white; white in a moderate degree.

Definition 2024

whitish

whitish

English

Adjective

whitish ‎(comparative more whitish, superlative most whitish)

Somewhat white, pale or almost white.
- 1910, The Year Book of Dermatology (page 124)
  The skin was somewhat pigmented, especially in certain regions, while over the whole there appeared whitish, rounded or oval mottlings or dapplings, most obvious where the surrounding cuticle was most deeply colored.

Translations

somewhat white

Armenian: սպիտակավուն (hy) ‎(spitakavun)
Catalan: blanquinós
Chinese:
Mandarin: 髮白的, 发白的 ‎(fàbó de)
Danish: hvidlig
Esperanto: blanketa
Estonian: valkjas
Finnish: valkeahko
French: blanchâtre (fr)
German: weißlich (de), (Swiss) weisslich (de)
Hebrew: לְבַנְבַּן (he)
Hungarian: fehéres (hu)
Ido: blankatra (io)
Irish: scothbhán (ga), fobhán
Italian: biancastro (it), bianchiccio
Japanese: 白っぽい ‎(しろっぽい, shiroppoi)
Kazakh: ақтау ‎(aqtaw)

Kurdish: gewr (ku)
Latvian: iebalts
Malagasy: fotsifotsy (mg)
Manx: fo-vane
Maori: kōmā
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hvitaktig
Polish: białawy (pl)
Portuguese: esbranquiçado (pt)
Russian: белова́тый (ru) ‎(belovátyj), белесова́тый (ru) ‎(belesovátyj), белёсый (ru) ‎(beljósyj), беля́вый (ru) ‎(beljávyj)
Spanish: blancuzco, blanquecino (es), blanquinoso, blanquizo
Turkish: bembeyaz (tr)
Vietnamese: hơi trắng
Volapük: vietilik (vo), vietlik (older term)