-ISH


Meaning of -ISH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ɪʃ ]

1.

-ish is added to adjectives to form adjectives which indicate that someone or something has a quality to a small extent. For example, something that is largish is fairly large.

She is tallish, brown-haired, and clear-skinned...

With her was a youngish man in a dinner jacket.

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2.

-ish is added to nouns and names to form adjectives which indicate that someone or something is like a particular kind of person or thing. For example, ‘childish’ means like a child, or typical of a child.

She had entirely lost her girlish chubbiness.

...a man of monkish appearance.

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3.

-ish is added to words referring to times, dates, or ages to form words which indicate that the time or age mentioned is approximate.

I’ll call you guys tomorrow. Noon-ish...

The nurse was fiftyish.

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.