steel gray

1. 1.

   slightly purplish or bluish dark grey

   Synonymsiron bluesteel greyDavy's greyDavy's gray

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Questions about steel gray

What does steel gray mean?

steel gray means "slightly purplish or bluish dark grey".

What is another word for steel gray?

Close synonyms include iron blue, steel grey, Davy's grey, Davy's gray. 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 steel gray a common word?

steel 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.