Sameish vs Safeish - What's the difference?
sameish | safeish |
Basically the same; somewhat similar; rather alike.
*1899 , Brush and pencil:
*2005 , Philip Galanes, Father's Day :
Run-of-the-mill; ordinary; usual.
*1994 , Lesley Glaister, Partial eclipse :
*2004 , Hannah Adcock, Twentysomething: A Survivor's Guide :
Dull; drab; boring; typical; not exciting.
*2012 , Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett, ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income :
Somewhat safe.
* 1997 , Chris Cook, John Ramsden, By-elections in British politics
As adjectives the difference between sameish and safeish
is that sameish is basically the same; somewhat similar; rather alike while safeish is somewhat safe.sameish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They all look alike, have about the same tone and the same color, and indeed they are very sameish all around.
- Dressed like my mother, except all in green—green knit top, sameish green trousers.
- Otherwise, with the sameish' meals and the utterly ' sameish pattern, the patternless days, I might lose count, lose my bearings, they might trick me.
- Undergraduates are grouped in rather sameish' groups to do rather ' sameish things. You are there because you fit in.
- For example, readers might say they love a post you've written on headlines, because they're finding that their headlines are becoming stale and “sameish .”
Derived terms
* (l)safeish
English
Adjective
(-)- Before 1914 Newport had been a fairly safe Liberal seat, and after 1945 it was a safeish Labour seat which fell to the Tories only in the 1980s heyday of Thatcherism.