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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burned |
| Synonyms: | arid, dried, droughty, dry, parched, scorched, sear, shriveled, waterless, withered |
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| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silver |
| Synonyms: | ash, ashen, cinereal, clouded, dappled, dingy, dove, drab, dusky, dusty, grey, heather, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, oyster, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, shaded, silvered, silvery, slate, smoky, somber, stone |
| Notes: | the distinction in spelling between British grey and American gray is recent, popping up in Samuel Johnson's dictionary |
| Main Entry: | worn-out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted |
| Synonyms: | decrepit, depleted, destroyed, deteriorated, drained, effete, etiolated, frayed, hackneyed, impaired, overused, passe, sere, shabby, shot, spent, stale, tattered, threadbare, tired, trite, used, useless |
| Antonyms: | fresh, unused |
Example Sentences
- Like those two historic ships, she had reached the sere and yellow leaf of her existence.
- The killing drought also continues, turning the river to sand and the fruit trees sere and bare.
- It is something from the sere and yellow of a period much older than the present.
| Main Entry: | moistureless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dry |
| Synonyms: | anhydrous, arid, athirst, baked, bald, bare, barren, bone-dry, dehydrated, depleted, desert, desiccant, desiccated, drained, dried-up, droughty, dusty, evaporated, exhausted, hard, impoverished, juiceless, not irrigated, parched, rainless, sapless, sapped, sear, sere, shriveled, stale, thirsty, torrid, unmoistened, waterless |
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| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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| Concept: | Gray. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
gray; neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille., [Pigments] Payne's gray; black.
-adjectives
gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous, cineritious; grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.
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