ASHY (ashier, ashiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: ashier    , ashiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ashy mean? 

• ASHY (adjective)
  The adjective ASHY has 1 sense:

1. of a light grey

  Familiarity information: ASHY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASHY (adjective)

Comparative: ashier   
Superlative: ashiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a light grey

Synonyms:

ash-gray; ash-grey; ashy

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

Derivation:

ash (the residue that remains when something is burned)

 Context examples 

He danced about in his agitation, a ludicrous object if it were not for his ashy face and startled eyes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His face was ashy pale, beads of perspiration shone upon his brow, and his hands shook until the hunting-crop wagged like a branch in the wind.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Sir,” said he, with tears starting to his weather-beaten face, which, with his trembling lips, was ashy pale, “will you come over yonder?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was so beautiful in its form, it was so ashy pale, it was so fixed in its abstraction, it was so full of a wild, sleep-walking, dreamy horror of I don't know what.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)