different between nearish vs wearish
nearish
English
Etymology
near +? -ish
Adjective
nearish (not comparable)
- Somewhat near
Anagrams
- Shearin, arshine, hernias
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wearish
English
Etymology
Possibly from weary + -ish.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w?????/
Adjective
wearish (comparative more wearish, superlative most wearish)
- (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
- (obsolete or dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].
- , New York Review Books, 2001, p.16:
- Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
Derived terms
- wearishness
Anagrams
- washier
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