slaty

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From slate + -y.

We saw the shimmering slaty gleam of their skins between the tree-trunks, and their heads undulating high above the brush-wood. — The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
She was dark and massive, with black hair, thick, black eyebrows and eyes of the clear, slaty blue of the gulf water in a north wind. — Rainbow Valley, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Most of the rocks glimpsed were apparently Jurassic and Comanchean sandstones and Permian and Triassic schists, with now and then a glossy black outcropping suggesting a hard and slaty coal. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

slate-grey, slate-gray, slaty-grey, slaty-gray, slatey, stone-grey, stone-gray

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