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: gray-ly. The stress falls on "gray".

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.