greyly

1. 1.

   having a grey appearance

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

   Synonymsgrayly

Questions about greyly

What does greyly mean?

greyly means "having a grey appearance".

How many syllables are in greyly?

greyly has 2 syllables and divides as grey-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 greyly?

Close synonyms include grayly. 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 greyly a common word?

greyly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.