Crossword clues for ashy
ashy
- Hardly hale
- Somewhat off-color
- Like an old grate
- Like an abandoned campfire
- Like a fireplace grate
- Hardly healthy-looking
- Pale and wan
- Like used fireplaces
- Like many fireplaces in winter
- Like dirty hearths
- Like an uncleaned fireplace
- Like a used fireplace grate
- Fouled by fire
- Covered in soot
- Pale in color
- Not looking well, in a way
- Looking gray
- Like Vesuvian terrain
- Like the bottom of a fireplace
- Like andirons, generally
- Like a recently used fireplace
- Like a hearth
- Like a dirty hearth
- Like a burned-out campfire
- Ghastly looking
- Covered in fireplace residue
- With color washed out
- With a gray face
- Visibly aghast
- Unlotioned, perhaps
- Pale as a sheet
- Pale and grayish, like extra-dry skin
- Messy, as a hearth
- Looking a whiter shade of pale?
- Like volcanic clouds
- Like used briquettes
- Like used andirons
- Like unlotioned elbows
- Like the ground after a campfire
- Like the bottom of a just-used barbecue
- Like the bottom of a dirty fireplace
- Like St. Helens' output
- Like some grates
- Like skin that needs lotion
- Like Pompeian relics
- Like most fireplace grates
- Like messy fireplaces
- Like many fireplaces in late winter
- Like many andirons
- Like many a hearth
- Like fire pits
- Like doused campfires
- Like burnt briquettes
- Like burned briquettes
- Like an old fireplace
- Like air near a fire
- Like a used hibachi
- Like a used fire pit
- Like a just-used fireplace
- Like a grate
- Like a fireplace the morning after, say
- Like a fireplace in February
- Like a burned-out briquette
- Light grey
- In need of lotion
- Ill-looking, perhaps
- How some meteorites appear
- Hardly flushed
- Gray of face
- Gray in the face
- Dry, as skin
- Dirty, as a fireplace
- Covered with smoky cinders
- Covered in cinders
- Colorless of cheek
- Chromatically drained
- Burnt, as briquettes
- Begrimed with soot
- Ash covered
- Anemic looking
- Afflicted with dry skin
- Adjective for volcanic fallout
- Wan
- Like certain trays
- Pale as a ghost
- Pallid looking
- Sickly, as a complexion
- Grayish
- Paler than pale
- Far from ruddy
- Whitish-gray, as skin
- White as a sheet
- Like some fireplaces
- Far from flushed
- Gray, in a way
- Unhealthy-looking
- Pasty-faced
- Looking frightened
- Like a spent campfire
- Like many hearths
- Like arson evidence
- Like fireplaces
- Like Pompeii, once
- Visibly horrified
- Like fireplace grates
- Like a used barbecue pit
- Like volcanic fallout
- Like the area around an erupting volcano
- Like some evidence in arson cases
- Depleted of color
- Like a spent briquette
- Like a post-volcanic landscape
- Like spent charcoal
- Pale-faced
- Like an unswept hearth
- Like a barbecue pit
- Deadly pale
- Like cinders
- Cinereal
- Cadaverous
- Needing a tan, apparently
- Like a paleface?
- Very pale
- Cinereous
- Like Mr. Claus's suit
- Rubicund's opposite
- Not healthy-looking
- Grey area, unproductive
- A mousy 10
- A mousy grey
- Yup, mum’s inside looking pale
- Like, eg, volcanic dust
- Like hippy's jacket without colour
- Like burnt residue
- Like burnt remains
- Light grey coloured
- A fling, one of the Shades of Grey?
- Retiring after beginning to appear grey
- Retiring after one becomes grey
- Lacking color
- Drained of color
- Hardly ruddy
- Looking pale
- White as a ghost
- Pale grayish
- Visibly terrified
- Covered with soot, e.g
- Light gray
- More than pale
- Unnaturally pale
- Like a post-eruption landscape
- Far from florid
- Smudged with soot
- Quite pale
- Like a dirty fireplace
- Like a fireplace floor
- Covered with cinders
- With fireplace residue
- Quite white
- Not exactly ruddy
- Like an unswept fireplace
- Like an uncleaned hearth
- Like a chimney
- Like a burnt-out briquette
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ashy \Ash"y\, a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
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Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
--Shak.Ashy pale, pale as ashes.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from ash (n.1) + -y (2).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having the color of ashes. 2 (context African American Vernacular English English) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
WordNet
Usage examples of "ashy".
There is no beard, the face being smooth and dark ashy, but on the fore-quarters and neck the hair lengthens into a magnificent mane, which sometimes reaches to the knees.
While the clergyman was speaking, with flashing eyes and commanding voice, the seaman turned ashy pale, and drew his shoulders together like a cat preparing to defend her life.
Their way home lay over Ashy Down, a lofty chalk promontory, round whose foot the river made a sudden bend.
As they passed through the miserable hamlet-street of Ashy, they saw a light burning in window.
Ashy, Tregarva, if the weir-pool did, some fine morning, run up to Ashy Down, as poor Harry Verney said on his deathbed.
Whitford should be on him and his, till they helped the poor in the spirit of the nuns of Whitford, and the Nun-pool ran up to Ashy Down.
And then, in broken words, she told him how she had gone up to the fever patient at Ashy, on the fatal night on which Lancelot had last seen her.
Ashy into one beautiful palace, among great flower-gardens, where the school children will sit and sing such merry hymns, and never struggle with great pails of water up the hill of Ashy any more.
The child, with face ashy white and eyes glistening, her spirit borne aloft by the fervent strains of the litanies, was gazing at the altar, where in imagination she could see the roses multiplying and falling in cascades.
From the grey heaven, where the first of the stars were gleaming, a fine ashy dust seemed to be raining down on the great city, raining down without cessation and slowly burying it.
The Baudelaire orphans looked around them, and huddled together as if they were still in a dark hallway instead of outdoors in broad daylight, standing amid the ashy ruins of their destroyed home.
Violet led the way up the stairs to Veblen Hall and grabbed the doorknob without a thought to the ashy smear she would leave on its polished surface.
Every eye in the crowd fell on the siblings as they left an ashy trail behind them on their way to the cardboard box.
The twisted features, eyeless and locked in an endless scream, mocked him from the ashy ground.
She dragged a heavy copper tube out of the next crate, wiping a thick slurry of ashy mud off the mottled green surface.