silver-grey

/'silvə'grei/

Thân thiện

The artist mixes a silver-grey paint on her palette.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having a grey color that resembles or has the lustrous appearance of silver: Describes a shade of grey that is pale, cool, and somewhat shiny, similar to the metal silver.

Usage

• The word "silver-grey" is used to describe the color of objects, materials, or sometimes natural phenomena like hair or skies. It is a compound adjective typically placed before a noun.
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Examples

• Adjective:
  • The artist mixed white and black to create a perfect silver-grey hue for the clouds.
  • We chose silver-grey tiles for the modern kitchen floor.
  • In the moonlight, the lake had a silver-grey sheen.

Advanced Usage

• Descriptive Nuance: "Silver-grey" often implies not just color but also a subtle metallic sheen or a cool, elegant quality.
  • The fog was a dense, silver-grey blanket over the city at dawn.

Variants and Related Words

• Silver-gray: An alternative spelling, common in American English.
• Silvery-grey: A variant that emphasizes the shiny, metallic quality even more.
• Grey-silver: A less common inversion of the terms.

Synonyms

• Pewter: A darker, duller grey metallic color.
• Slate grey: A solid, flat grey, often without the metallic shine.
• Ash grey: A pale, muted grey, similar to ashes.

Antonyms

• Jet black: A deep, solid black.
• Vibrant colors (e.g., crimson, gold): Colors that are bright and saturated, unlike the muted, metallic silver-grey.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of grey resembling silver

Từ đồng nghĩa

• silver-gray
• silvery-grey
• silvery-gray