单词 | slaty |
释义 | slaty (once / 14775 pages) adj WORD FAMILY slaty USAGE EXAMPLESThe prevailing color is a slaty blue, undulated, and softly shaded with white all over the body, forming bands of various widths. Jennings, Robert, Sheep, Swine, and Poultry—Embracing...(2012) Behind it, the land rises to a higher ridge, the edge of which is remarkably serrated, and probably of a slaty character. Fitzroy, Robert, Narrative of the surveying voyages...(2012) The lifeless chilly slaty sky with no blue hope is lit, A rusty waddling steamer plants a smudge of smoke on it. Fletcher, John Gould, Irradiations; Sand and Spray(2012) adj of the color of slate or granite the slaty sky of dawn Syn slate-gray, slate-grey, slatey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, stone-gray, stone-grey achromatic, neutral having no hue |
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