grayish

American  

[grey-ish] / ˈgreɪ ɪʃ /

especially British, greyish

adjective

1. having a tinge of gray; slightly gray.

   The sky was full of dark, grayish clouds.

2. similar to gray.

   a grayish color; a grayish purple.

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Etymology

Origin of grayish

First recorded in 1555–65; gray ¹ + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

Her eyes traveled from Nighthand’s arm —which had swollen so badly, he’d had to cut the sleeve from his shirt and jacket—to his face, which was grayish white.

From Literature

But that morning, she was wearing overalls in an equally nondescript color of grayish beige and bright blue boots.

From Literature

The truck was grayish brown like everything else, and lay slumped and broken on the road like the skeleton of a dead animal.

From Literature

He described working in a strawberry field while a nearby tractor was spraying a grayish fluid that smelled like chemicals.

From Los Angeles Times

Partly because of their remarkable transcontinental voyage between salt lakes, the grayish birds have inspired a close partnership between communities in California and Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times