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grayish

[ grey-ish ]

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of grayish1

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

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Example Sentences

One week her hair was grayish pink, the next it was black with bangs, then pixie-cut, then Marilyn Monroe–like curls.

The public observers were overwhelmingly male, most of them in jeans and grayish blazers.

They are grayish or colorless, and have a dull waxy look, as if cut from paraffin (Figs. 43 and 61).

Beauty was still hers, and the dress of grayish hue, nun-like in its simplicity, seemed more than royal robe.

But here is an account of an Indian monkey, of a light grayish yellow color, with black hands and feet.

His grayish brown hair was combed carefully from one side across the top in an unsuccessful attempt to conceal his baldness.

They vary exceedingly in colour, and pass through the intermediate gradations from a dark brown to a pale fulvous, and a grayish.

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