stone-gray

Questions about stone-gray

What does stone-gray mean?

stone-gray means "of the color of slate or granite".

How many syllables are in stone-gray?

stone-gray has 3 syllables and divides as sto-ne--gray 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 stone-gray?

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

stone-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.