as in gray
of the color gray
the black stallion and white mare produced a grayish filly
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Recent Examples of grayish
While gophers and groundhogs are both burrowing rodents, usually with brown to grayish fur, gophers are much smaller and typically measure about 5 to 14 inches long.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2026
Frostbite symptoms include redness or skin pain, white or grayish-yellow skin areas, skin that feels unusually firm or waxy and numbness, according to the CDC.
—Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
Signs of frostbite include numbness, white or grayish-yellow skin or firm or waxy skin.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
At a time when most plants go dormant, evergreen trees really thrive in winter and add a bit of color and life to an otherwise dull grayish landscape.
—Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 20 Jan. 2026
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2026
Frostbite symptoms include redness or skin pain, white or grayish-yellow skin areas, skin that feels unusually firm or waxy and numbness, according to the CDC.
—Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
Signs of frostbite include numbness, white or grayish-yellow skin or firm or waxy skin.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
At a time when most plants go dormant, evergreen trees really thrive in winter and add a bit of color and life to an otherwise dull grayish landscape.
—Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 20 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grayish
Adjective
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Rooms are in muted tones of grey, green, and dusky blue, and even the smallest have plenty of space with king-size beds and a table and chairs—the city views are more interesting, but the ones overlooking the courtyard have dinky Juliette balconies as a consolation.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
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On a gray afternoon in the days before Easter, a dozen or so schoolchildren straggled into a side building at Rochester Cathedral and began their transformation.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The other was that the silver oxide batteries that ran them had the longevity of a peanut at an elephant convention – especially if the watch had an electromechanical analog display with its power-hungry step motor.—
David Szondy
March 28,
New Atlas,
28 Mar. 2026
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Apple runs her high femme little coven out of their store Free Eden with an emphasis on iconic women — the girls confess to their martyr Marilyn Monroe in a dressing room, and practice dark magic with their panties and a silver cowboy boot.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Grayish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grayish. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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