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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

And in Western Germany, after one of the wettest and greyest winters in 20 years, the sun was shining again, fitfully, but shining.

From Time Magazine Archive

To a real lover of Henry James the greyest and least promising aspects of ordinary life seem to hold up to us infinite possibilities of delicate excitement.

From One Hundred Best Books by Powys, John Cowper