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Definition of nigrescent in English: nigrescentadjective nʌɪˈɡrɛs(ə)ntnɪˈɡrɛs(ə)ntˌnaɪˈɡrɛs(ə)nt rare Blackish. 〈罕〉带黑的，稍黑的，发黑的 Example sentencesExamples - The peduncles are typically subglabrous to hispidulose or glandular, nigrescent; bracteoles caducous.
- The central part of the nigrescent parade was drawn by a steam engine wholly different in appearance, this one looking less like a maladroit tin shed mounted upon a wheeled chassis and a lot more like a vehicle designed for such labour as this.
- This nigrescent little corridor opens onto a dimly lit dining room that has seven booths that seat four and two tables that seat two.
- His nigrescent pelt shone in the growing darkness, the kingdom he entered was not his own, it was unclaimed.
Synonyms black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, coal-black, black as night, sable, ebony, dark
Derivativesnoun rare I believe my writings in the area of psychological nigrescence and racial identity have provided a level of conceptual depth which is often unseen in much of the literature published in psychological journals. Example sentencesExamples - Speculating on the African genesis of what he called ‘Africanoid’ Celts, Beddoe's index of nigrescence provided the scientific justification for racial hatred of the Irish as an inferior race.
- Cross proposed a four stage model of psychological nigrescence or Black self-actualization in which he suggested that Black people move from a stage of racial consciousness characterized by self-abasement and denial of their blackness to a stage characterized by self-esteem and acceptance of their blackness.
- Cross’ work on nigrescence, or the process of becoming Black, highlights a developmental progression from a non-Black identified assimilationist type to a strongly engaged, internalized Black identity.
OriginMid 18th century: from Latin nigrescent- 'growing black', from the verb nigrescere, from niger, nigr- 'black'. Rhymesacquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, evanescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, juvenescent, lactescent, liquescent, luminescent, obsolescent, opalescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, turgescent, virescent, viridescent Definition of nigrescent in US English: nigrescentadjectiveˌnīˈɡres(ə)ntˌnaɪˈɡrɛs(ə)nt rare Blackish. 〈罕〉带黑的，稍黑的，发黑的 Example sentencesExamples - The central part of the nigrescent parade was drawn by a steam engine wholly different in appearance, this one looking less like a maladroit tin shed mounted upon a wheeled chassis and a lot more like a vehicle designed for such labour as this.
- His nigrescent pelt shone in the growing darkness, the kingdom he entered was not his own, it was unclaimed.
- This nigrescent little corridor opens onto a dimly lit dining room that has seven booths that seat four and two tables that seat two.
- The peduncles are typically subglabrous to hispidulose or glandular, nigrescent; bracteoles caducous.
Synonyms black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, coal-black, black as night, sable, ebony, dark
OriginMid 18th century: from Latin nigrescent- ‘growing black’, from the verb nigrescere, from niger, nigr- ‘black’. |