Brownest vs Browniest - What's the difference?
brownest | browniest |
(brown)
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
Black tar heroin.
(sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance
Having a brown colour.
(obsolete) Gloomy.
To become brown.
(cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
To tan.
To make brown or dusky.
* Barlow
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
(browny)
Somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=Nora Roberts
, title=Key of Knowledge
, chapter=3
, isbn=0515136379
, page=48
, passage=“Pink, browny red,” he repeated, grinning.}}
As adjectives the difference between brownest and browniest
is that brownest is superlative of brown while browniest is superlative of browny.brownest
English
Adjective
(head)brown
English
(wikipedia brown)Noun
(en noun)- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* (having brown as its colour) nonbrownDescendants
* American Sign Language:Verb
(en verb)- Fry the onions until they brown .
- Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
- A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
- (Ure)
- the browning of America