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blackish
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adj 1: of something that is somewhat black; "blackish clouds"
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blockish
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adj 1: resembling a block in shape [syn: blockish, blocky]
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bookish
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adj 1: characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading;
"a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket";
"a quiet studious child" [syn: bookish, studious]
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brackish
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adj 1: distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin
brackish gruel"
2: slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of
seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny
deep" [syn: brackish, briny]
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cliquish
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adj 1: befitting or characteristic of those who incline to
social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of
people considered inferior [syn: clannish, cliquish,
clubby, snobbish, snobby]
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darkish
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adj 1: slightly dark; "darkish red"
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freakish
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adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish
weather" [syn: capricious, freakish]
2: characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
3: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like
a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish
combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the
outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage
antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky,
flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish,
outre]
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hawkish
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adj 1: disposed to warfare or hard-line policies; "militant
nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies" [syn:
militant, hawkish, warlike]
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mawkish
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adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
"a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin,
mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy,
sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]
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monkish
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adj 1: befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial
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peckish
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adj 1: somewhat hungry
2: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young
man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn:
cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish,
peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy,
tetchy, techy]
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pinkish
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adj 1: of a light shade of red [syn: pink, pinkish]
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prankish
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adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying
with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch,
impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated,
prankish, puckish, wicked]
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puckish
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adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying
with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch,
impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated,
prankish, puckish, wicked]
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rakish
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adj 1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper
young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing,
jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy,
snappy, spruce]
2: marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness;
"a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary
Moore [syn: devil-may-care, raffish, rakish]
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rubbish
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n 1: worthless material that is to be disposed of [syn:
rubbish, trash, scrap]
2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
codswallop]
v 1: attack strongly
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sickish
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adj 1: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated,
nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]
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sluggish
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adj 1: moving slowly; "a sluggish stream" [syn: sluggish,
sulky]
2: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish]
3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert,
sluggish, soggy, torpid]
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uppish
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adj 1: (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a
snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le
Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and
persnickety" [syn: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty,
snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's
breeches, uppish]
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turkish
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Turkey or its
people or language; "Turkish towels"
n 1: a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
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frankish
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adj 1: of or relating to the Franks
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quackish
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trickish
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weakish
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gawkish
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folkish
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