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Definition of washy in English: washyadjectivewashier, washiest ˈwɒʃi 1archaic (of food or drink) too watery. - 1.1 Lacking in strength or vigour; insipid.
a weak and washy production Example sentencesExamples - They've pretty much dropped social/political style illustrations for lots of washy winter scene's or visual jokes.
2(of a colour) having a faded look. I knitted the sample in a denim cotton to give a washier colour Example sentencesExamples - Much grandiose painting business is imposed on top of a large blue spiral enclosing washy green transparencies.
- Backlighting the hand, a bright yellow disk rests against a washy sienna background encircled by a repeating phrase in Gujarati.
- The washy gray background of Untitled, 1960, for example, suggests a wintry landscape and feels lovingly painted.
- In each of these works, a washy monochromatic ground has been marked with white whiplash lines.
- A washy monochrome, its broad rectangles of turpentine-thinned burnt sienna lack not only the powerful materiality of the other paintings, but the intensity of fully saturated color as well.
- It seems like a window that you could step through and the gentle, washy colours are like the dew on freshly mown grass.
- In one, the stick-straight, regular strokes, painted light against a washy dark so that fine black lines halo every gesture, suggest bare twigs caught in an ice storm.
- Centered in the distance amid a vast panorama, the Empire State Building rises into the pink haze that settles over it; a washy band of pale blue floats above.
Derivatives noun My favorite thing about the photos above is the selection of an unflattering angle and the pale washiness of the image for the "uncute" girl. Example sentencesExamples - Five of twenty-one patients who reported stool washiness had diarrhea, but only 2 patients had serious symptoms.
- I like the combo and the layering of the washiness of the watercolor with the mandala imagery.
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Definition of washy in US English: washyadjective 1archaic (of food or drink) too watery. - 1.1 Lacking in strength or vigor; insipid.
a weak and washy production Example sentencesExamples - They've pretty much dropped social/political style illustrations for lots of washy winter scene's or visual jokes.
2(of a color) having a faded look. Example sentencesExamples - Centered in the distance amid a vast panorama, the Empire State Building rises into the pink haze that settles over it; a washy band of pale blue floats above.
- Backlighting the hand, a bright yellow disk rests against a washy sienna background encircled by a repeating phrase in Gujarati.
- It seems like a window that you could step through and the gentle, washy colours are like the dew on freshly mown grass.
- In each of these works, a washy monochromatic ground has been marked with white whiplash lines.
- A washy monochrome, its broad rectangles of turpentine-thinned burnt sienna lack not only the powerful materiality of the other paintings, but the intensity of fully saturated color as well.
- Much grandiose painting business is imposed on top of a large blue spiral enclosing washy green transparencies.
- In one, the stick-straight, regular strokes, painted light against a washy dark so that fine black lines halo every gesture, suggest bare twigs caught in an ice storm.
- The washy gray background of Untitled, 1960, for example, suggests a wintry landscape and feels lovingly painted.
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