slaty-grey

Questions about slaty-grey

What does slaty-grey mean?

slaty-grey means "of the color of slate or granite".

How many syllables are in slaty-grey?

slaty-grey has 3 syllables and divides as sla-ty--grey 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 slaty-grey?

Close synonyms include slate-grey, slate-gray, slaty-gray, slaty, slatey. 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 slaty-grey a common word?

slaty-grey 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.