Words that rhyme with currish

  • amateurish
    adj 1: lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting" [syn: amateurish, amateur, inexpert, unskilled]
  • bearish
    adj 1: expecting prices to fall
  • boorish
    adj 1: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish]
  • cherish
    v 1: be fond of; be attached to [syn: care for, cherish, hold dear, treasure]
  • fairish
    adj 1: not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices" [syn: fair, fairish, reasonable] 2: (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion"; [syn: fair, fairish]
  • feverish
    adj 1: marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace" [syn: feverish, hectic] 2: of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen" [syn: febrile, feverish] [ant: afebrile] 3: having or affected by a fever [syn: feverish, feverous]
  • flourish
    n 1: a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish" 2: an ornamental embellishment in writing 3: a display of ornamental speech or language 4: the act of waving [syn: flourish, brandish] 5: (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare" [syn: flourish, fanfare, tucket] v 1: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming" [syn: boom, thrive, flourish, expand] 2: make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance; "The new student is thriving" [syn: thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish] 3: move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun" [syn: brandish, flourish, wave]
  • garish
    adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]
  • gibberish
    n 1: unintelligible talking [syn: gibberish, gibber]
  • impoverish
    v 1: make poor [ant: enrich] 2: take away [syn: deprive, impoverish] [ant: enrich]
  • liquorice
    n 1: deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots [syn: licorice, liquorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra] 2: a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant [syn: licorice, liquorice]
  • liverish
    adj 1: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress [syn: bilious, liverish, livery] 2: irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish]
  • nightmarish
    adj 1: extremely alarming [syn: bloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarish]
  • nourish
    v 1: provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children" [syn: nourish, nurture, sustain] 2: give nourishment to [syn: nutrify, aliment, nourish]
  • parish
    n 1: a local church community 2: the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
  • perish
    v 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
  • vinegarish
    adj 1: tasting or smelling like vinegar [syn: acetose, acetous, vinegary, vinegarish] 2: having a sour disposition; ill-tempered [syn: vinegary, vinegarish]
  • moorish
    adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the Moors; "Moorish courtyard" [syn: Moorish, Moresque] n 1: a style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries; characterized by horseshoe-shaped arches [syn: Moorish, Moorish architecture]
  • squarish
    adj 1: somewhat square in appearance or form
  • irish
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people n 1: people of Ireland or of Irish extraction [syn: Irish, Irish people] 2: whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley [syn: Irish, Irish whiskey, Irish whisky] 3: the Celtic language of Ireland [syn: Irish, Irish Gaelic]
  • malnourish
    v 1: provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment; "The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished" [syn: undernourish, malnourish]
  • undernourish
    v 1: provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment; "The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished" [syn: undernourish, malnourish]
  • parrish
    n 1: United States painter (1870-1966) [syn: Parrish, Maxfield Parrish, Maxfield Frederick Parrish]
  • vigorish
    n 1: an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest [syn: usury, vigorish] 2: a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster [syn: rake-off, vigorish]
  • cleverish
  • lickerish
  • liquorish
  • spinsterish
  • whorish
  • berish
  • moreish

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