grayish

or grey·ish

[grey-ish]

adjective

having a tinge of gray; slightly gray: The sky was full of dark, grayish clouds.
similar to gray: a grayish color; a grayish purple.

Origin of grayish

First recorded in 1555–65; gray¹ + -ish¹

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Examples from the Web for grayish

Contemporary Examples of grayish

One week her hair was grayish pink, the next it was black with bangs, then pixie-cut, then Marilyn Monroe–like curls.
Agyness Deyn in ‘Pusher’: On Stripping, Acting, and How She’s Not Done Modeling
Isabel Wilkinson
October 24, 2012
The public observers were overwhelmingly male, most of them in jeans and grayish blazers.
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Asne Seierstad
April 15, 2012

Historical Examples of grayish

Where the airplanes and other junk had been, was nothing but a heap of grayish dust.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930
Various
His hair was yellowish, mottled with patches of grayish green.
Louisiana Lou
William West Winter
The caps were obtusely convex and of a grayish rufescent color.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise
M. E. Hard
The gills are slightly notched, adnexed, somewhat crowded, grayish.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise
M. E. Hard
The upper lip was shaved, and the eyebrows were heavy and grayish black.
Cap'n Warren's Wards
Joseph C. Lincoln