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GRAYLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grayly mean?
• GRAYLY (adverb)
The adverb GRAYLY has 1 sense:
1. having a grey appearance
Familiarity information: GRAYLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a grey appearance
Synonyms:
grayly; greyly
Context example:
lonely creeks are opal in the dawn, sword-blue in the sun, greyly silver under misty moons
Pertainym:
gray (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black)
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