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Meaning of "pygmyish" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PYGMYISH

pygmyish  [ˈpɪɡmɪɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PYGMYISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pygmyish is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PYGMYISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pygmyish in the English dictionary

The definition of pygmyish in the dictionary is resembling a pygmy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PYGMYISH


babyish
ˈbeɪbɪɪʃ
boyish
ˈbɔɪɪʃ
clayish
ˈkleɪɪʃ
cockneyish
ˈkɒknɪɪʃ
dandyish
ˈdændɪɪʃ
dilettanteish
ˌdɪləˈtæntɪɪʃ
dryish
ˈdraɪɪʃ
fortyish
ˈfɔːtɪɪʃ
greyish
ˈɡreɪɪʃ
highish
ˈhaɪɪʃ
hippieish
ˈhɪpɪɪʃ
lazyish
ˈleɪzɪɪʃ
puppyish
ˈpʌpɪɪʃ
sissyish
ˈsɪsɪɪʃ
slyish
ˈslaɪɪʃ
sorryish
ˈsɒrɪɪʃ
thirtyish
ˈθɜːtɪɪʃ
toadyish
ˈtəʊdɪɪʃ
tomboyish
ˈtɒmbɔɪɪʃ
wheyish
ˈweɪɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PYGMYISH

pygal
pygarg
pygidia
pygidial
pygidium
pygmaean
Pygmalion
pygmean
pygmies
pygmoid
pygmy
pygmy chimpanzee
pygmy glider
pygmy marmoset
pygmy possum
pygmyism
pygostyle
pyic
pyin
pyinkado

WORDS THAT END LIKE PYGMYISH

boobyish
countryish
fiftyish
flunkeyish
fogyish
goyish
grannyish
hobbledehoyish
jockeyish
ladyish
nannyish
ninnyish
pixyish
prettyish
schoolboyish
shyish
skyish
Toryish
toyish
zanyish

Synonyms and antonyms of pygmyish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pygmyish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PYGMYISH

Find out the translation of pygmyish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pygmyish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pygmyish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pygmyish
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pygmyish
570 millions of speakers

English

pygmyish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pygmyish
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pygmyish
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pygmyish
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pygmyish
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pygmyish
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pygmyish
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pygmyish
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pygmyish
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pygmyish
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pygmyish
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pygmyish
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pygmyish
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pygmyish
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पायगामी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pygmyish
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pygmyish
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pygmyish
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pygmyish
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pygmyish
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pygmyish
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pygmyish
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pygmyish
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pygmyish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pygmyish

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PYGMYISH»

The term «pygmyish» is used very little and occupies the 170.978 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pygmyish

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PYGMYISH»

Discover the use of pygmyish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pygmyish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Searching for Vedic India
The irritating yet pygmyish trends of recent millennia are but a speck of dust in the conscious eye of eternity. Why not take the Vedic knowledge as it is and try to enter it according to its own precepts and methodology? Perhaps if we moderns ...
Swami Devamrita, 2002
2
Modern American Women Writers
The arms swing loosely; the left hand with a big seal ring, like a brass knuckle, moves in a sweeping gesture. The broad head is too round — pygmyish." The Group, published in 1963, became an immediate international best-seller (more than ...
Elaine Showalter, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, 1993
3
Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man
I can see how, in the human tabloid world, such an addiction to attention can be destructive, but when you're a pygmyish grey cat with cute bosseyes and Bambi legs who can't get enough strokes and cuddles, there reallyis nodownside toit.
Tom Cox, 2012
4
Talar: The Quest for ShadowCaster
He wanted to make a friend ofthis pygmyish warrior—not only forhis own safety but also to gain information aboutthis new world.He decided hewould have to try once moreto mindhisgood intentions. Perhaps, with theworm out of the picture, ...
Frank Sherry, 2014
5
English Language Word Builder
... HYPERNYMy LYRATELY LYSOZYME MYOPATHY+ MYOPHILY+ PENNYBOY PERIGYNY+ POLYONYMy POLYPARY+ PRYINGLY PYGMYISH STAYAWAY SYMPATRY+ SYNKARYA SYZYGIAL XYLOLOGY+ XYLOTOMY+ YONDERLY ...
Bob Jackman, 2012
6
Mindshadow
He wasnearly seven feettall, blackskinned, and exuding charm,a welcome contrast tothe pygmyish Tellarite who stood nearby, arguing quite obnoxiously withthe ambassador from Cygnus V. “Permit me togetyou a glass.” Kirk startedtoprotest ...
J.M. Dillard, 2000
7
The Essential Wisden: An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden ...
The culture of the game was such that no odium attached to the players who were so well-rewarded for going on the seven rebel tours though, in their own small and moral-pygmyish way, they were acting as agents of apartheid. That war has ...
John Stern, Marcus Williams, 2014
8
A comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary
taman park bench, sebangku of the same (school) bench as. kawan — classmate (seated on the same bench), bangkut dwarfish, pygmyish, stunted. bangku(w)ang jicama (the Spanish name, popular in the U.S.A.), Pachyrhizus angulatus ...
Alan M. Stevens, 2004
9
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep ...
Truman Capote, 2007
10
The Synonym Finder
... miniature, small- scale, pocket-sized, bantam, short; small, little, mini, pint-sized , Inf. baby; petite, delicate, dainty, minikin; homuncular, midget, dwarfish, Med. nanoid, pygmy, pygmoid, pygmyish. 2. insignificant, unimportant, inconsequential , ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PYGMYISH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pygmyish is used in the context of the following news items.
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Buried treasure: British Museum's secret treasures
Everything that surrounds it seems laughably pygmyish and toyishly vernacular by comparison. The fanfare of its great neo-classical portico seems to proclaim it ... «Independent, Apr 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Pygmyish [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pygmyish>. Apr 2024 ».
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