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nigrescent

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10 lettersPronunciation /nɪˈɡɹɛsənt/Sorted ceeginnrstStarts with NEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Approaching blackness; blackish, dark-coloured.

Word origin

From Latin nigrescens, present participle of nigrescere (“to grow black”), from niger (“black”). By surface analysis, Latin nigr(ēre) + -escent. See negro.

Used in a sentence

  • Pomp of Words Moſt ſplendidly nigrescent
  • At night the temperature is 250 degrees below zero; by day it is the heat of boiling water. Yet the sun is but an intense circle of white aloft in a nigrescent sky.
  • [T]he dark death roses came into bloom. I cut them and carried them to Thecla, nigrescent purple flecked with scarlet.

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