Meaning of nigrescent | Babel Free
/nɪˈɡɹɛsənt/Definitions
Approaching blackness; blackish, dark-coloured.
Equivalents
Français
nigrescent
Examples
“Pomp of Words Moſt ſplendidly nigrescent”
“At night the temperature is 250 degrees below zero; by day it is the heat of boiling water. Yet the sun is but an intense circle of white aloft in a nigrescent sky.”
“[T]he dark death roses came into bloom. I cut them and carried them to Thecla, nigrescent purple flecked with scarlet.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.