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greyish

/grey-ish/US // ˈgreɪ ɪʃ //

灰色的,带灰色的,带灰色,偏灰

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a tinge of gray; slightly gray: The sky was full of dark, grayish clouds.
    • : similar to gray: a grayish color; a grayish purple.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • That means painted lady caterpillars — which are grayish-brown with yellow stripes and spikes — don’t have a lot to eat, and the painted lady population can’t grow.

  • It just has grayish, ropelike tissue that burrows through soil.

  • 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.