Word.ws English Dictionary

tarrish

tarrish adjective: synonym of tarry (“resembling tar”).

Adjective

tarrish (comparative more tarrish, superlative most tarrish)

  1. Synonym of tarry (“resembling tar”).
    Synonyms:
    tarry

Synonyms of tarrish

Forms of tarrish

comparativemore tarrish
superlativemost tarrish

Origin of tarrish

From tar + -ish.

Questions about tarrish

What does tarrish mean?
Tarrish means synonym of tarry (“resembling tar”).
What part of speech is tarrish?
Tarrish is an adjective.

Words near tarrish in the dictionary

  1. tarring with the same stick
  2. tarring-and-feathering
  3. tarrings
  4. Tarrington
  5. Tarrio
  6. tarrish
  7. Tarro
  8. Tarrone
  9. tarrs
  10. tarruf
  11. tarrufdar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tarrish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tarrish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tarrish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.