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greyness

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n.1.a neutral achromatic color midway between while and black.
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Noun1.greyness - a neutral achromatic color midway between white and blackgreyness - a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
achromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or grey or black
ash gray, ash grey, silver gray, silver grey, silver - a light shade of grey
dapple-gray, dapple-grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey - grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings
iron-gray, iron-grey - the color of freshly broken cast iron
tattletale gray, tattletale grey - a greyish white
Davy's gray, Davy's grey, iron blue, steel gray, steel grey - slightly purplish or bluish dark grey
Translations
greyness grayness (US) [ˈgreɪnɪs] N
1. (= grey colour) [of sky, clouds] → lo gris; [of hair] → lo canoso
2. (= bleakness) [of situation] → lo deprimente; [of future] → lo poco prometedor
the greyness of his suits exactly matched the greyness of his mindel gris de sus trajes reflejaba lo gris de su mentalidad
in a world full of greyness this was her only hopeen un mundo tan sombrío ésta era su única esperanza
greyness [ˈgreɪnɪs] (British) grayness (US) n
[weather, winter] → grisaille f
[world, situation] → caractère m sombre
[person] → morosité f
grey squirrel (British) gray squirrel (US) nécureuil m gris, petit-gris m
greyness, (US) grayness
n
(= colour)Grau nt; (of face)Fahlheit f; (of weather, day)Trübheit f
(= bleakness: of life, world, outlook) → Trostlosigkeit f, → Öde f
(= anonymity, of person) → Gesichtslosigkeit f; (of place)Anonymität f


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Tumultuous waves of the great river rise And seem to storm the skies, While snow-bright peak and prairie mist combine, And greyness softens the harsh mountain line.
The fire had crumbled down to greyness, and one of the lamps made a gurgling appeal for attention.
Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.
 
 
 
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