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bloodish

bloodish adjective: resembling blood; blood-red.

Adjective

bloodish (comparative more bloodish, superlative most bloodish)

  1. Resembling blood; blood-red.
    • […] patient had noticed a slightly bloodish tinge to the urine, but there was no real hematuria.1926, Transactions of the American Association of Genito-Urinary
  2. Bloody.
    • A bloodish battle occurred between you, Indian soldiers and one part of yours under control of British soldiers.2010, Wynn Wilcox, Vietnam and the West: New Approaches, page 123

Forms of bloodish

comparativemore bloodish
superlativemost bloodish

Origin of bloodish

From blood + -ish.

Questions about bloodish

What does bloodish mean?
Bloodish means resembling blood; blood-red.
What part of speech is bloodish?
Bloodish is an adjective.

Words near bloodish in the dictionary

  1. bloodinesses
  2. blooding
  3. blooding in
  4. blooding out
  5. bloodings
  6. bloodish
  7. bloodlands
  8. bloodleaf
  9. bloodleafs
  10. bloodleaves
  11. bloodless

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