Slaty

//ˈsleɪti// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling the rock slate.

    "Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars."

  2. 2
    Of a light grey colour as slate.

    "But snow had now begun to fall out of a forbiddingly slaty-grey sky, and this seemed to depress both engine and crew."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of the color of slate or granite wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
adamantashendappledapple graydappleddingy

Example

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"In the course of ten or fifteen minutes the thinning mist dissolved altogether from the northern horizon, as it had already done elsewhere, and about a quarter of an hour before the time of sunset the westward clouds parted, the sun's position being partially uncovered, and the beams streaming out in visible lines between two bars of slaty cloud."

Etymology

From slate + -y.

Related phrases

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