nigrescent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ni=gres=cent

CIDE DICTIONARY

nigrescent, a. [L. nigrescens, p. pr. of nigrescere to grow black, fr. niger black. See Negro.].

 Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nigrescent, adj. blackish.

Derivative

nigrescence n.

Etymology

L nigrescere grow black f. niger nigri black

ROGET THESAURUS

nigrescent

Blackness

VB be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.