light-skinned – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of light-skinned

Adjective: light-skinned

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativelighter-skinned
Superlativelightest-skinned

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • The other one was Creole-looking, a light-skinned black guy with pointy cheekbones and nappy hair. [1987, Elmore Leonard, Bandits, page 56:]

Adjectives inflected like light-skinned

light-skinned, light on one's feet,

Etymology