Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: grayish
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'eɪɪʃ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: grey, gray, greyish, grayish
    Meaning: of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"
Usage examples
  • It was grayish.
  • It was of common quality, grayish in colour.
  • Their grayish green suits toned in with the color of the blue gums.
  • They returned next morning and found a gelatinous mass of grayish color.
  • When we come to reported falls of gelatinous substances, I'd like it to be noticed how often they are described as whitish or grayish.
  • Their slender, grayish needles are from eight to twelve inches long, and inclined to droop, contrasting with the rigid, dark-colored trunk and branches.
  • Barely a few dwarf plants could now be noticed, like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles.
  • There it is, a great animal, half the length of one's arm, with bushy, long red tail arched high for easier running, its grayish coat showing in the bars of sunlight, its eyes bright and black and keen.
  • From the uplands he could get a view of the shaded cut part of the meadow below, with its grayish ridges of cut grass, and the black heaps of coats, taken off by the mowers at the place from which they had started cutting.
  • It would seem acceptable that, if many reports of white birds should occur, the birds are not blackbirds, even though there have been white blackbirds. Or that, if often reported, grayish or whitish gelatinous substance is not nostoc, and is not spawn if occurring in times unseasonable for spawn.