Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Somewhat gray.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat gray; tending to gray.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat gray.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective somewhat
gray
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word grayish.
Examples
-
But I recall a grayish morning along Arno and a meeting with Messer
The God of Love 1898
-
Upon entering my MIL's house we noticed a huge bowl on her dining room table with unsavory looking brown water and a slimy kind of grayish white thing floating in it.
-
Pheffer claimed that during the search he went into Rice's bedroom, and in a closet, he found three attaché suitcases, Samsonite, kind of grayish, kind of bluish, gray color that had wires sticking out of all three of them.
-
His face changed color to a kind of grayish purple, and his hands clenched slowly at his sides.
Pagan Passions Laurence M. Janifer 1967
-
The droppings of these millions of birds and animals and the accumulating bodies of the dead have decayed and made a kind of grayish powder.
-
Why it wuz dat crawly, kind of grayish, lookin 'sugar us used den.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
-
In his youth he greedily fills his soul with everything he can lay his hands on and at the age of thirty all that remains of it is a kind of grayish rubbish.
-
He hadn't been married a year before all the seven were shady; the colors ran into each other till even Sundays became a kind of grayish drab.
The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904
-
There is also a scarcity of rock, — though, in the neighborhood of Bijou, I observed a kind of grayish sandstone, exposed to view in the beds of ravines; and, directly opposite Chabonard's camp, the action of the waters had formed a steep wall, some thirty or forty feet high, which disclosed a large bed of sandstone and slate, with earthy limestone.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
-
With treatment, these spots often turn slightly darker and "grayish", after which they become "crusty" and simply flake off in
WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.