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Greyish means a little bit grey, not fully grey. On a colour word, -ish is a soft ending: , , greyish — “towards that colour.” A greyish sky is not a storm yet, and not bright blue either. Clothes, walls, animals, and even a face can be greyish. It is a gentle, everyday word, not technical. American spelling often has grayish; in Taiwan textbooks the usual form is greyish, with an e.
帶點灰的、略灰的
組成grey + -ish. The suffix -ish (from Old English -isċ) means “somewhat; a bit like.”
同家族的字
- greythe colour; -ish makes it “a bit grey”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。