WordNet
adj. resembling or containing slate [syn: slaty]
of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn" [syn: slate-gray, slaty, stone-gray]
Usage examples of "slatey".
The bell in its belfry made a slatey sound, as if ringing from the adamantine heart of the building.
Instead there was a man who - in place of that free life - had chosen to incarcerate himself in Icen Hill, in the slatey castle in Askitosh.
A shaft of light spread upon the world, casting shadows, flooding a range of far hills with pink light till they gleamed against the slatey sky behind them.
The sun was bringing out the little gold flecks in those slatey dark eyes, making them sparkle disconcertingly.
Blue sky showed between the slatey clouds, and there was a hint of damp in the air.
As I stopped, panting and gasping, with a stitch jabbing in my stomach, they came up, one on either side of me, like the slatey shadows.
It had scraped the sky clean of clouds, leaving it a slatey blue with the sun off-center in it like a frozen yellow eye.
Sceilig implied rocks but she had not been prepared for such looming slatey masses.
The water runs in deep pools and streams over a blue slatey rock, which contains gold under the sand, in the worn holes and crevices.
Instead there was a man who-in place of that free life-had chosen to incarcerate himself in Icen Hill, in the slatey castle in Askitosh.
Once they got up there to Slatey Knob, they had fun running loose on top of that mountain with their cousins.
She was bad sick with pneumonia when she got off the train at Marshall, so me and Jesse took her home to Slatey Knob, where I nursed her and fed her good.
I sent her away from our house at Slatey Knob, away from all of us, and told her she better not never show her face to me or mine again.