brownish

CEFRC1

/ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/

adjective

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Examples

The tannins in the water of the mangrove swamp give it a distinct brownish color.
When he turned the spigot, brownish water came gushing out.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]
Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.
Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.

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The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over […]
1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Leopard Got His Spots”, in Just So Stories
Two pumps stood side by side in our kitchen. One was for well water and one was a cistern pump—water from the former was hard and clear, from the cistern it was brownish and soft.
1942, Emily Carr, “Waterworks”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

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From brown + -ish.