skiey - Glite Dictionary

Examples

Her dress shimmered with a skiey blue that reminded him of summer afternoons.
The painter used skiey tones to capture the vastness of the landscape.
In the poem, the mountains were described as wearing skiey crowns of mist.
The skiey hues of the sunset were breathtaking.
The painter chose a beautiful, skiey blue for the background of her landscape.
The skiey clouds created a stunning backdrop for the sunset.
On a clear day, the skiey expanse above us was filled with fluffy white clouds.

Synonyms

sky-blue

vsskiey

1 2.1

Deep blue with a little purple like a clear autumn sky

is broader, meaning general sky resemblance not that specific deep purplish shade

skyey

vsskiey

Archaic

9.9

Having the light blue color or wide open feeling of the sky

is the same meaning but uses a different written form

slaty

vsskiey

7.9

A gray-blue color like a flat rock often used on roofs

leans toward sky-like color rather than stone-derived gray tones

slatey

vsskiey

7.4

A gray color with a touch of blue

is more about sky resemblance than specifically stone color

slaty-gray

vsskiey

7.0

A dark gray color like the stone slate

is lighter or bluer, emphasizing sky appearance instead of dark stone tones

How Sky-Like

azure

12 4.9

skiey

UK

9.9

sky-blue

1 1.8

bluish

19 1.2

Surface Forms

skiey positive

Morphology

skiey = sky (transparent) = sky + y

The adjective is transparently formed from 'sky' with a standard adjectival suffix meaning 'resembling or relating to the sky'; the nonstandard spelling 'skiey' does not obscure the relation.

Etymology

Skiey comes from the simple word sky and the ending -ey, where sky means 'the open air above us' and -ey means 'like', so skiey describes something that looks like or has the color of the sky.