Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of ink; containing ink; smeared or stained with ink; resembling ink; black.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of the
colour ofink , especiallyblack ink;dark . - adjective
spattered orstained with ink
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the color of black ink
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Examples
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His own bulging flesh was covered in inky-blue tattoos and he clearly had no idea she was an Olympic champion.
Victoria Pendleton: 'Dreaming of being chased by a killer is normal' Donald McRae 2010
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The room was in inky darkness, save where a small window admitted a faint gray light that indicated the outer world.
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The wide river, flowing rapidly between its rugged banks, rolled in inky blackness beneath the overshadowing crags; while the waves in mid-channel flashed along in dazzling light, rendered more intense by the surrounding darkness.
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They have a disease over there called inky root consequently new plantings have largely ceased, though there are some going on.
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The more prevalent ink effects and flatter rendering style are what I would have liked for Street Fighter 4, especially after that "inky" debut trailer.
Euphoria? 2008
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Whistler has given us the night -- not the black, inky, meaningless void which has always stood for evil; not the darkness, the mere absence of light, the prophet had in mind when he said, "And there shall be no night there" -- not that.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885
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London, at the chill break of day, when the overhanging clouds were yet charged with the 'inky' purple of night -- in order, like a true book-chevalier, to embrace the first dank impression, or proof sheet, of his own famous octavo edition of _Shakspeare_; and of Mr. Bulmer's sumptuous impression of the text of the same.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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It's 3. 45am on a Tuesday morning at Channel Nine's headquarters in Willoughby and it's very dark - the kind of inky darkness you get just before dawn, unbroken by any city lights.
unknown title 2009
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It's 3. 45am on a Tuesday morning at Channel Nine's headquarters in Willoughby and it's very dark - the kind of inky darkness you get just before dawn, unbroken by any city lights.
unknown title 2009
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The results include inky splodges of paint like sea spray and mottled fields of blue.
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