The word "greenish" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is of a green color, but not quite green. For example, "The sky was a pale greenish blue color."
It looked, reported the members, like a greenish preserve, its ingredients a mixture of hashish, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, pistachio, sugar, orange juice, butter and cantharides.
He spooned a morsel of paste or greenish jam about as large as a thumb from a crystal vase, and placed it next to the silver spoon on each saucer.
I went to the bathroom and, in the greenish cast of the fluorescent lights, I saw the blood.
And out of her peeling, greenish doorways could come women in furs, or pink hair-curlers, or orange-striped socks.She did not rate her own work highly.
Yet most of these greenish techies drive everywhere to work, to shop and to play.
For many of them, the drug scene was a quick, soggy spliff behind the bike sheds, or a reverential division of a cake of greenish powder, washed down with a glass of Liebfraumilch and covered up with burning joss sticks.
When it is briefly lighter, the eye is more sensitive to greenish-yellow light.
(Just to prove it, he gave it eight colours of the spectrum, the eighth being fluorescent greenish-yellow-purple octarine, and let some characters move so fast that light stood red-faced in embarrassment).
When darker, it responds best to light that is greenish-blue.White LED lamps do a better job of meeting these conflicting requirements than sodium lamps can manage and they do it at lower power levels, to boot.
When darker, it responds best to light in the greenish-blue part of the spectrum.
A lonely yacht or two passes us as we anchor for a swim in the shallow, greenish-blue water.Back to top >>.
