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grayish

or grey·ish

[ grey-ish ]

/ ˈgreɪ ɪʃ /

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.

Words nearby grayish

grayanotoxin, grayback, graybeard, grayfish, grayhound, grayish, graylag, grayling, graymail, grays peak, graysby

Origin of grayish

First recorded in 1555–65; gray¹ + -ish¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for grayish

The public observers were overwhelmingly male, most of them in jeans and grayish blazers.
Norway Puts Hate on Trial, With Anders Behring Breivik’s Ugly Beliefs|Asne Seierstad|April 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The specific name griseus means gray, and probably has reference to the grayish color of the winter plumage.
Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 2 [February 1901]|Various
There is a grayish or brown dark stripe from the nostril to the eye; the stripe continues to the groin.
A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico|William E. Duellman
Counter now was dust; ticket-man only a crumble of fine, grayish powder.
Darkness and Dawn|George Allan England

Far and wide the sea of verdure rolls around us, broken only by ridges of grayish rock and scarped cliffs of reddish basalt.
Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land|Henry Van Dyke
He's a tall, stoop-shouldered gent, with a grayish mustache and a good deal of gold watch chain looped across his vest.
Shorty McCabe on the Job|Sewell Ford

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