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gardenish

gardenish adjective: like, characteristic, or typical of a garden; somewhat gardenlike.

Adjective

gardenish (comparative more gardenish, superlative most gardenish)

  1. Like, characteristic, or typical of a garden; somewhat gardenlike.
    • It is such a joy to see the trees all breaking into green again—you know my view at the back, well it is getting quite gardenish and rural, there is a cherrytree close by me that gladdens me every morning as I go out to look at it.1901, John Richard Green, Leslie Stephen, Letters
    • But I disagree with you about the gardenish landscape. The lowest mountains here terrify me far more than anything I saw in Connemara or Achill.2013, Colm Toibin, New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

Forms of gardenish

comparativemore gardenish
superlativemost gardenish

Origin of gardenish

From garden + -ish.

Questions about gardenish

What does gardenish mean?
Gardenish means like, characteristic, or typical of a garden; somewhat gardenlike.
What part of speech is gardenish?
Gardenish is an adjective.

Words near gardenish in the dictionary

  1. gardenias
  2. gardenin'
  3. gardening
  4. gardening leave
  5. gardenings
  6. gardenish
  7. gardenize
  8. gardenized
  9. gardenizes
  10. gardenizing
  11. gardenless

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