slaty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of the color of slate or granite

   The slaty sky of dawn.

2. 2
   adj

   Resembling the rock slate.

   Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.

3. 3
   adj

   Of a light grey colour as slate.

   But snow had now begun to fall out of a forbiddingly slaty-grey sky, and this seemed to depress both engine and crew.

From slate + -y.

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