2011年2月28日 · When describing the colors of things we can add "-ish", to say that it is a hue of the color. E.g.: "She's got brownish-green eyes." or "Nicky's got reddish-blond hair." I would like to know where I can find the rules for spelling. I mean, red+ish, you have to put two "d" (reddish). Orange+ish, you drop the "e" (orangish).

2017年2月10日 · 中文裡有處理模糊的字眼有「有點」、「稍微」、「好像」、「大約」、「左右」，在英文裡面-ish這個有趣的字也有此妙用。 它可以單獨用，或和數字、顏色連用，幫大家整理用法如下：

When using ‘-ish’ to describe colors, you are talking about something that when you look at it, it might not be exactly that color but it reminds you of that color. For example, I use this a lot when talking about people’s eye colors. You look at someone, and you say “Wow, your eye are brown but they are also a little bit greenish. It ...

-ish and -y are not normally interchangeable. -ish is more common than -y and -y is principally used with colours (though not black or white): What colour tie do you think goes with this shirt? …

In English, when you don't know how to describe something, you can put 'ish' after the adjective - for example: This color is blue-ish. (This color might be blue.) It could be blue, or it might not be blue. - (please correct my mistakes: Please correct my writing errors)

2015年12月11日 · Since you mentioned colour, there is a meaning of -ish which is mostly used with colours. It is 'influenced by' - "greenish blue" is a blue colour with a slight green tint. "Reddish orange" is orange with a red tint.

2013年7月5日 · 颜色+ish=形容词，具有某种颜色的，微什么色的，淡什么色的 例如yellow yellowish red reddish 其他常见词还有：devilish（如恶魔的，穷凶恶极的，残暴的），childish（小孩子气的、小孩子般的），selfish（自私的），foolish（愚蠢的）

2025年1月8日 · There are three ways that you can use a colour in a sentence to describe something: 1. To Be + Colour. e.g. My car is blue. 2. Colour + Noun. e.g. The blue car is mine. 3. Colour is the Noun. e.g. Blue is the colour of my car. Did you know that, because colours give us more information about a person or a thing, they are adjectives in English?

you can say warm-ish, cold-ish, etc. generally we don't use ish in righting, and more in casual speech. ish allows you to be less exact. if you say 7ish, it would mean "around 7." as the other person said, you can do this with other things, too. with colors you can say greenish or bluish if it isn't pure green or blue.

@yoshionimusha: 在英文中，当我们不知道怎么形容一个东西时，我们一般在形容词后面加“-ish”。 比如：This color is blue -ish. 这个颜色可能是蓝色的。