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Princeton's WordNet

  1. brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brownadjective

    of a color similar to that of wood or earth

Wiktionary

  1. brownishadjective

    of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Brownishadjective

    Somewhat brown.

    Etymology: from brown.

    A brownish grey iron-stone, lying in thin strata, is poor, but runs freely. John Woodward, on Fossils.

Wikipedia

  1. brownish

    Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing and painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors orange and black. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown combines red and green. The color brown is seen widely in nature, wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil.According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; it is often associated with plainness, the rustic, feces, and poverty, although it does also have positive associations include baking, warmth, wildlife, and the autumn.

ChatGPT

  1. brownish

    Brownish refers to something that is somewhat brown in color or having a slight brown tint or hue. It is often used to describe an object, substance, or material that resembles or has hints of brown color.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Brownishadjective

    somewhat brown

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of brownish in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of brownish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of brownish in a Sentence

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    For weeks, we would bring the nicest banana we could find in Berlin to the zoo, and she would always just straight eat it, there was some head scratching done. and we gradually figured out that it’s only brownish bananas that she peels. She never peels a beautiful yellow one.

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