Слегка серого оттенка.
Slightly grey in color.
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See how the word “сероватый” is used in sentences
Небо стало сероватого голубого цвета. — The sky turned a greyish blue.
Почему вода в пруду такая сероватая? — Why is the water in the pond so greyish?
На нём была сероватая куртка, видавшая виды. — He wore a greyish jacket that had seen better days.
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Download the app for free Russian vocabulary testСероватый is built with -оват-, the suffix Russian uses for a colour that is only partly there. Learn it once and the whole set comes with it: беловатый, желтоватый, красноватый, зеленоватый, синеватый.
Unlike French grisâtre it passes no judgement — it just means a bit grey. It declines as an ordinary adjective and agrees with its noun. One thing it never covers is hair going grey: that is седой, a different root altogether.
серый grey
The plain colour. Сероватый only leans towards it.
седой grey-haired
Only of hair, and the word Russian reaches for wherever English says grey about a person.
пепельный ashen, ash-coloured
A named shade rather than an approximation — used of hair colour and of skin.
тусклый dull, drab
About how little light a thing gives back, not about which colour it is.
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