Somewhat or rather ardent; having a quality of ardor or passion, though not intensely.
From ardor or ardent with the diminutive or softening suffix -ish, indicating a partial or reduced quality of the root characteristic.
The -ish suffix is English's favorite way to soften intensity—ardish means 'kind of ardent,' just like bluish means 'kind of blue,' showing how we linguistically hedge our descriptions.
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