inky

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
    — One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]
  2. Spattered or stained with ink.
  3. Dark-skinned; black. literary,obsolete
    — The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

词形变化

inkier comparative inkiest superlative

词汇关系

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-?
Proto-Hellenic *káyyō
Ancient Greek καίω (kaíō)
Ancient Greek καυστός (kaustós)
Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston)bor.
Late Latin encaustumder.
Old French enquebor.
Middle English ynke
English ink
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English inky
From ink + -y.
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