iron-gray

Questions about iron-gray

What does iron-gray mean?

iron-gray means "the color of freshly broken cast iron". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in iron-gray?

iron-gray has 3 syllables: i-ron--gray. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for iron-gray?

Close synonyms include iron-grey, iron-grey. 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 iron-gray a common word?

iron-gray 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.