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eveningish

eveningish adjective: resembling or characteristic of the evening (time of day).

Adjective

eveningish (comparative more eveningish, superlative most eveningish)

  1. (colloquial) Resembling or characteristic of the evening (time of day).
    • The longed-for rain, light and eveningish, was coming in.2024, Roz Dineen, Briefly Very Beautiful, Bloomsbury, page 54

Forms of eveningish

comparativemore eveningish
superlativemost eveningish

Origin of eveningish

From evening + -ish.

Questions about eveningish

What does eveningish mean?
Eveningish means resembling or characteristic of the evening (time of day).
What part of speech is eveningish?
Eveningish is an adjective.

Words near eveningish in the dictionary

  1. evening-snow
  2. eveninger
  3. eveningers
  4. eveningful
  5. eveningfuls
  6. eveningish
  7. eveningless
  8. eveninglike
  9. eveningness
  10. eveningprimrose
  11. evenings

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