saddish

English

Etymology

sad +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ædɪʃ

Adjective

saddish (comparative more saddish, superlative most saddish)

1. (informal) Somewhat sad.
   • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter XX,^[1]

     He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head—three verses—kind of sweet and saddish—the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart"—and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,^[2]

     […] for these when not actively employed were sometimes […] apt to fall into a saddish mood which in some partook of sullenness.

Anagrams

• siddhas