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greyest

ADJECTIVE

muted silver in color

Synonyms

WEAK

Dove ash ashen battleship cinereal clouded dingy drab dusky dusty granite heather iron lead leaden livid mousy neutral oyster pearly peppery powder sere shaded silvered silvery slate smoky somber stone

Example Sentences

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Colombo awoke to its greyest sky of the week come Sunday morning.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

How and when to count commercial income is already one of the greyest of grey areas in accounting.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2014

Dublin was at its wettest and greyest, while south-west London last Saturday felt like Siberia.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2013

By last week talk of a downturn in European business, hushed when Europe's boom refused to bust even during the U.S.'s greyest months, broke out in loud tones.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is made in a large variety of degrees, from the hardest and greyest to the softest and blackest, and is too well known to need much description.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold