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alienish

adj

Etymology

From alien + -ish.

  1. derived from *h₂élyos✻
  2. derived from alius — “other”
  3. derived from aliēnus — “belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”
  4. derived from alien
  5. inherited from alien
  6. suffixed as alienish — “alien + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of an alien

    Characteristic of an alien; alienlike

    • The bruise on my cheek had ripened into an underlying violet with an alienish green tinge. My ear had a red cut nicked out of it. The hot curling iron burn on my neck was starting to scab but it looked like it might hang around a lifetime.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for alienish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA