Inky

//ˈɪŋki//

Synonyms for "inky" (69 found)

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Closest matches (14)

black dark murky atramentous besmirched black as coal black as ebony black as ink black as midnight black as night blackened coal-black

Adjective(2 words)

black inkish

Strong matches (21)

coaly dark as night dark as pitch darkened deep black discolored ebon ebony flack foxed foxy gloomy ink-black inky black jet jetty

Adjective(3 words)

dark dark colour dusky

Adjective(2 words)

ink-black inky-black

Related words (34)

Adjective(7 words)

languid murky sable sad sombre sooty swarthy

midnight night-black night-dark nigrous pitch black pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy raven raven-black sable sloe sloe-black sloe-colored smirched smoky soiled stained stigmatic stigmatiferous

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stigmatized sunless tainted tar-black tarnished tarry

Proper Noun(1 words)

quizzy

Related word relations

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7 relation types

Antonyms

3 entries

bright clear whitened

Synonyms

4 entries

black dark inky black murky

Related terms

2 entries

India-inky inky-dinky

derived

3 entries

inkily inkiness inky cap

derived from

1 entries

ink

related to

6 entries

black colour dark ink spattered stained

similar

2 entries

achromatic neutral

Translations

7 translations across 3 languages.

Czech

4 entries

inkoustový adj (dark)
inkoustově modrý adj (dark)
inkoustově černý adj (dark)
temně modrý adj (dark)

Esperanto

1 entries

inka adj (dark)

Polish

1 entries

atramentowy adj (dark)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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Arroz negro tastes inky because it's made with squid ink.

Source: tatoeba (718015)

My fingers are all inky from the tragic calligraphy accident.

Source: tatoeba (718016)

The inky litre of blueberry juice needed something else to make it taste better, but he could not discern what that something could be.

Source: tatoeba (1126661)

The inky night sky had no stars.

Source: tatoeba (2629793)

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