"darkish" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "dark + -ish",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English derkish, derkissh, derkyss; equivalent to dark + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more darkish",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most darkish",
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        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, London: J.M. Dent, published 1911, Part I, p. 41",
          "text": "[…] if […] the lead be blown off from the silver by bellowes, that which would else have gone away in the form of unheeded steams will in great part be collected not far from the silver, in the form of a darkish powder or calx; which, because it is blown off from silver, they call litharge of silver.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1666 September 2, Samuel Pepys, Diary",
          "text": "We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days",
          "text": "The village was darkish under the shade of broad leaves.",
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        }
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        "Somewhat dark."
      ],
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        [
          "dark",
          "dark"
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        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "cjemnaváty",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "цемнава́ты"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "tariko"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "pōuriuri"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "manauri"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "poururu"
        },
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          "code": "non",
          "lang": "Old Norse",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "sámr"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "temnovátyj",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "темнова́тый"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "mörklagd"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "temnuvátyj",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "темнува́тий"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "darkish"
}

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    },
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      },
      "expansion": "dark + -ish",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more darkish",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most darkish",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, London: J.M. Dent, published 1911, Part I, p. 41",
          "text": "[…] if […] the lead be blown off from the silver by bellowes, that which would else have gone away in the form of unheeded steams will in great part be collected not far from the silver, in the form of a darkish powder or calx; which, because it is blown off from silver, they call litharge of silver.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1666 September 2, Samuel Pepys, Diary",
          "text": "We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days",
          "text": "The village was darkish under the shade of broad leaves.",
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        "Somewhat dark."
      ],
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      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "cjemnaváty",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "цемнава́ты"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "tariko"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "pōuriuri"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "manauri"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "poururu"
    },
    {
      "code": "non",
      "lang": "Old Norse",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "sámr"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "temnovátyj",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "темнова́тый"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "mörklagd"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "temnuvátyj",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "темнува́тий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "darkish"
}