washy
/ˈwɒʃi
/adjective (washier, washiest)
1 archaic (Of food or drink) too watery: washy potatoes
1.1Lacking in strength or vigour; insipid: a weak and washy production...
- 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...
- It seems like a window that you could step through and the gentle, washy colours are like the dew on freshly mown grass.
- Backlighting the hand, a bright yellow disk rests against a washy sienna background encircled by a repeating phrase in Gujarati.
- 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.
Derivatives
washiness
- 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.
- 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.
washily
Rhymes
- trust territory
- trustworthily
- trustworthiness
- trustworthy
- trusty
- truth
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Truth Commission
- truth condition
- truth drug
- truther
- truth frequency
- truthful
- truthfully
- truthfulness
- truth function
- truth-functional
- truth-functionality
- truth-functionally
- truthify
- truthiness
- truthing
- truth in sentencing
- truthless
- truthlike