greenish
adj.slightly green in color. You use this when something is not perfectly green but looks like it might be.
adj.having a slight green tint or being somewhat green in hue. Formed by the suffix '-ish', which indicates a moderate or approximate quality.
“The old copper roof has a greenish color.”
“After several days in the sun, the clear pool water began to take on a greenish tint due to algae growth.”
“The artist blended a small amount of yellow into the blue paint to create a greenish wash that perfectly captured the murky depths of the lake at twilight.”
Typically used as a gradable adjective; often precedes the noun it modifies or follows a linking verb like 'look' or 'turn'.
From Middle English grenyssh, grenysch, equivalent to green + -ish.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.