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Slaty

//ˈsleɪti// adj

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

Etymology

From slate + -y.

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