slaty

English

Alternative forms

• slatey

Etymology

From slate +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪti/

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• Rhymes: -eɪti

Adjective

slaty (comparative slatier, superlative slatiest)

1. Resembling the rock slate.
   • 1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Isle of the Torturers", Weird Tales:

     Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.

2. Of a light grey colour as slate.
   • 1949 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 192:

     But snow had now begun to fall out of a forbiddingly slaty-grey sky, and this seemed to depress both engine and crew.

Derived terms

• Bolivian slaty antshrike
• great slaty woodpecker
• Guianan slaty antshrike
• Natterer's slaty antshrike
• Peruvian slaty antshrike
• Planalto slaty antshrike
• slatily
• slatiness
• slaty-backed gull
• slaty-breasted tinamou
• slaty bristlefront
• slaty-grey snake
• slaty-legged crake
• Sooretama slaty antshrike
• western slaty antshrike

Anagrams

• Styal, salty