nigrescent

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English

Etymology

From Latin nigrescens, present participle of nigrescere (“to grow black”), from niger (“black”). See negro.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡɹɛsənt/, /naɪˈɡɹɛsənt/
Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

nigrescent (comparative more nigrescent, superlative most nigrescent)

Approaching blackness; blackish, dark-coloured.
- 1725, Thesaurus ænigmaticus:
  Pomp of Words Moſt ſplendidly nigrescent
- 1958, Jefferson Howard Sutton, “Chapter 9”, in First on the Moon‎:
  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.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 99:
  he dark death roses came into bloom. I cut them and carried them to Thecla, nigrescent purple flecked with scarlet.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:black

Derived terms

nigrescence

Related terms

albescent (“becoming white”), erubescent (“becoming red”), flavescent (“becoming yellow”), virescent (“becoming green”)

References

“nigrescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

centerings, centreings

Latin

Verb

nigrēscent

third-person plural future active indicative of nigrēscō

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