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Meaning of yellowishly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

With a colour resembling yellow.

Examples

“The skin becomes thinned and yellowishly discoloured at one point, gives way, and a large quantity of thick creamy pus escapes.”
“. . . a sky with every fading colour: blue-green, pale grey between green and blue, fuzzy hues of distant clouds that aren't clouds, yellowishly darkened by an expiring red.”
“Ploughman silently studied the two men for a moment or two longer, then smiled yellowishly, opened a desk drawer, and brought out a bottle of Gordon's gin.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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