grayish-brown
- adjective
- /ˈɡreɪɪʃ braʊn/
- US
:
marrón grisáceo
- She painted the walls a warm grayish-brown to make the room feel cozier.
Examples
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The old barn had a grayish-brown color, showing its age from years of weathering.
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"If you throw all the colors on the canvas and mix them together, you always end up with greyish-brown."
Blog text (19) -
Her clothes were stippled with wood dust, more grayish-brown than black.
Fiction book (1997) -
Let's use some of the darkest shade, which is like a really dark greyish brown, which actually almost looks black.
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Typically, the surface area is dark grayish-brown silty clay about 25 cm thick.
Academic text (1998) -
The surface layer of this soil is dark grayish-brown silty clay, about 33 cm thick.
Academic text (1998) -
The man's grayish-brown arms poked like sticks through his cloak.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'm going to go in with Glamour, which was that kind of like grey brown shade up there and pop that on the outer corner and slightly in the crease as well.
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She's looking crisp, virile, and alert, and her short grayish-brown hair is especially squared off today, all of which comforts Rodney.
Fiction book (1998) -
Peace out grease and if you're lacking in the brow department, no worries, just use a grayish brown powder to fill in your brows.
Synonyms
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4.8
A dull pale brown color like light brown hair
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2.0
A brown color mixed with gray
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6.9
A dull greyish-brown color like the fur of some horses
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2.7
A gray color with a little brown in it
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6.8
Of a dull brown-grey color
A light dull brown that looks slightly gray
A grey color with a little brown in it
A dull brown and gray color like dry earth
A dark brownish-grey colour like old wood
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Etymology
Grayish-brown is a simple color name made from grayish and brown, where the ending -ish means 'somewhat', so grayish is 'somewhat gray'. A helpful image is mixing gray and brown paint, which shows why grayish-brown means a brown color with a touch of gray.