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whitish

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whit·ish  (hwtsh, w-)
adj.
Somewhat white.
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Adj.1.whitish - resembling milk in color not clear; "milky glass"
milklike, milky
opaque - not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"
2.whitish - of something having a color tending toward white
off-white
achromatic, neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"


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The islet appeared to him in the shadow like a black mass, beyond the narrow strip of whitish water which separated him from it.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
They were "cestracio philippi" sharks, with brown backs and whitish bellies, armed with eleven rows of teeth-- eyed sharks--their throat being marked with a large black spot surrounded with white like an eye.
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