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yellow-gray

yellow-gray

3.7
A grey color with a little yellow in it
  • adjective
translation icon : gris amarillento
  • No one seems to know whether poor spirits or poor health give that scary yellow-gray cast to her skin.
  • yellow-gray haze

Examples

  • The drifting mist surrounded them in a yellow-gray haze, causing him to squint in the effort to see better.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The stalks of wheat were measly looking, yellow-gray, and meager.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The sky over the Atlantic turned a murkier shade of gray; from within a clot of cloud, the moon released a dull yellow-gray beam.

    Academic text (2016)

  • There was snow on both sides of the road, on the fields, and in the paddies, and a thin haze of yellow-gray dust floated high over the road and dulled the early-afternoon sun.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The sky was a dull yellow-gray as the storm approached, casting an eerie light over the landscape.

  • In the yellow-gray morning fog, the old church looked almost ghostly as it loomed through the mist.

  • The artist chose a yellow-gray palette for her painting, capturing the subtle tones of the autumn landscape.

Synonyms

yellowish-gray
vsyellow-gray
  • US
3.2

A gray color with a little yellow

is the same meaning but uses a different compound form
yellow-tinged
vsyellow-gray
3.5

Slightly yellow in color

is limited to a neutral shade mixed with that warm pale tint

How Gray

gray
  • US
321 1.0
yellow-gray
3.7

Surface Forms

yellow-gray positive
yellow-greyer comparative
yellow-grayest superlative

Morphology

yellow-gray = yellow + gray (transparent) = yellow + gray

Direct, literal combination of two colour adjectives; the meaning is readily deducible from the components.

Etymology

Yellow-gray is simply the two color words yellow and gray put together. It means a grey color with a touch of 'yellow', like the warm, soft grey you might see in clouds or a cat's fur.