grayly
7.6
In a dull, pale color like fog
- adverb
- /ˈɡreɪli/
- US
:
de manera gris
- She had already flown with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon across the Atlantic, across the very ocean that stretched grayly away from the beach where Hettie's mother had humiliated her.
Examples
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Her dress flowed grayly against the backdrop of the old stone walls.
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I come out of the bathroom and the cat is sitting on top of the humidifier (in the hallway, which is carpeted grayly but cleanly).
Fiction book (1999) -
The sky was covered in clouds that hung grayly over the city.
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The winter landscape appeared grayly muted, with barren trees and overcast skies.
Synonyms
leadenly
vsgrayly
7.1
In a dull, heavy gray way that makes things look dark
describes only a gray color or appearance without heaviness
Surface Forms
grayly positive
Morphology
Etymology
Grayly comes from gray, the color 'between black and white', plus the ending -ly that changes a describing word into one that tells how something is done. So, grayly simply means 'in a gray way' or 'having a gray appearance'.
