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Definition of Grayish
1. Adjective. Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black. "A man with greyish hair"
Similar to: Achromatic, Neutral
Derivative terms: Gray, Grayness, Greyness
Definition of Grayish
1. a. Somewhat gray.
Definition of Grayish
1. Adjective. somewhat gray ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grayish
1. somewhat gray [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grayish
Literary usage of Grayish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... and a less distinct postocular streak of dusky; nape pale dull buffy passing
into light grayish brown on lower hind- neck, streaked with dusky, ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"Subsection A. Streak white, or grayish-white. ... Color white, or grayish.
No effervescence with acids. Color, Diaphaneity, Ire. Blowpipe. ..."
3. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the by David Starr Jordan (1878)
"Black and white; sides chestnut in $; $ duller and grayish; crest high and
compressed; nostrils sub-basal; L. 19; W. 8. N. Am., common. ..."
4. Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States, and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1864)
"Adult with the bill carmine-red; with the unguis white ; head and neck grayish-
brown ; a white band, margined behind with blackish-brown, on the anterior ..."
5. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1905)
"Dorsal cilia grayish fuscous. burred with darker lines. ... Abdomen above dark
ochreous fuscous. under-iile of body and legs grayish, tinted with fuscous. ..."
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