evenish
evenish adjective: somewhat even.
Adjective
evenish (comparative more evenish, superlative most evenish)
- Somewhat even.
- On the score of quality, some very in-and-out trials since tend to make the thirty-one exhibitors rather an evenish class, although to the eye it is long since a finer or more racing-looking lot ever came out ; Newmarket's pride, too, unquestionably having the best of it, both in the gifts of...1845, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review
- With paintbrushes and bourbons in hand and cigarettes clamped between our teeth we spent a happy week or so covering ourselves and the boat in an evenish coat of yellow paint. At the time, ideas like that seemed normal, sensible even.2011, Paul Copperwaite, The Mammoth Book of Drug Barons
- Synonyms:
- evenlike
Synonyms of evenish
Forms of evenish
| comparative | more evenish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most evenish |
| alternative form | even-ish |
Origin of evenish
From even + -ish. Compare Saterland Frisian ieuwenske (“next to, along side of, beside”).
Questions about evenish
- What does evenish mean?
- Evenish means somewhat even.
- What part of speech is evenish?
- Evenish is an adjective.
Words near evenish in the dictionary
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