ashy
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈæʃi/
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gris ceniza
- It's just a really beautiful, ashy bronzer that's great for just getting a little bit more contour.
- ashy skin
- ashy gray
- ashy face
But you're starting to see the ashy white look.
- But you're starting to see the ashy white look.
- Now watered down like this, this is way too ashy to be a skin color.
- It comes with three colors, a more blondish warm color, an ashy color and a super dark ashy color comes with this brush, which is perfect.
- So my face, there's some sunscreen that have that almost kind of like bluish ashy cast to them, and I feel like this is one of them.
- Obviously, mystery eyeshadow was just a little bit too cool tone too much of A deep ashy brown for my natural hair color, and I've gone for lighter things.
- Yeah, I feel like the JoJo Armani ones, just a little bit more pinky ashy Gray.
Examples
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"My father suddenly clutched the arms of the railway carriage seat, while his face grew ashy pale, and great drops of perspiration stood upon his forehead. Though he tried hard to master the dread, it was so strong that we had to leave the train at the next station."
Academic text (2001) -
All along the charred timbers, all across that circle of ashy earth, blackberry bushes had sent runners, new and green as they twined around a brick or a length of wood.
Fiction book (1998) -
When I say blue ashy cast, I am not playing.
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That look ashy to you?
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So it is getting that kind of slightly ashy brown shade.
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This one is in ash brown and as you can see it's ashy brown colour.
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And it's just a really nice ashy toned medium brown color.
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Her hair hung limply, and her brown skin looked ashy from lack of sun.
Fiction book (2002) -
Melted cars and ashy gray debris littered Skyline.
Fiction book (1994) -
The walls of the old house were ashy, giving the place a cold and desolate feel.
Synonyms
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1.1
Slightly like the color of old hair or a cloudy sky
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2.6
A pale white color with a little gray
A light pale gray that looks like soft smoke
A very pale gray color like the powder left after a fire
A very light grey that looks almost white
A light gray color like shiny metal
Having the gray color or look of stone
Antonyms
How Pale
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ashy comes from ash meaning 'the powder left after a fire' and the ending -y meaning 'like'. So ashy means 'like ash' and describes a pale gray color, which is why we say a face, sky, or carpet looks ashy when it appears pale or gray.