grayly

1. 1.

   having a grey appearance

   “lonely creeks are opal in the dawn, sword-blue in the sun, greyly silver under misty moons”

   Synonymsgreyly

Questions about grayly

What does grayly mean?

grayly means "having a grey appearance".

How many syllables are in grayly?

grayly has 2 syllables and divides as gray-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for grayly?

Close synonyms include greyly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grayly a common word?

grayly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.