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blondish

blondish

2 2.7
Hair, fur, or a color that is a little blonde
  • adjective
  • /ˈblɑndɪʃ/
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  • Maybe it's because I have blondish hair that is now streaked with bits of gray.
  • blondish hair
  • blondish-brown
  • dirty-blondish

But this is a chick who's got, like, blondish brown hair.

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Examples

  • He pushed the lock of his blondish hair that fell into his forehead back, away from his eyes.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • His blondish hair needed cutting and swung away from his ears and neck as his chin lifted.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • She had sort of, like, dark, red, blondish kind of hair.

  • Mrs. Gilbert's blondish hair was a particular tragedy, I thought.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • She was a small woman in her late thirties, her blondish hair beginning to show streaks of white.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Their guide in Girona is a stylish woman of about thirty, with blondish hair drawn up with a tortoise-shell clip.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • But even a mother sometimes needed a comforting pillow on which to lay her head, so Amanda reached out and tousled her son's blondish hair.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • He even looked a little like Dougie with blondish hair, light brown eyes, and a demeanor more bookish than athletic.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • And yet he had been attractive to women once, a slim blondish young man, always young-looking even with the mustache that he wore for some years, straw-colored and thick.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Her hair is lush and shiny, with blondish highlights that catch the sunlight.

Synonyms

blond
vsblondish
176 1.0

Having light-colored hair

is less definite in color and suggests only an approximate match
fairish
vsblondish
6.8

A little light in color, like pale hair or skin

is narrower and focuses on hair color suggesting almost pale yellow

How Blonde

light-haired
1 2.6
blondish
2 2.7
brown-haired
4 1.0
dark-haired
20 1.5

Surface Forms

blondish positive

Morphology

blondish = blond (transparent) = blond + ish

The productive adjective-forming suffix '-ish' meaning 'somewhat' or 'approximately' combines with the clear base 'blond', so the sense is directly inferable.

Etymology

Blondish combines blond (the light hair color) with the ending -ish, which means 'somewhat' or 'like', so blondish describes something that is a little or almost blonde.