How is the word grisáceo translated from Spanish to English
English translation
Greyish
adjective 
De color algo gris.
Slightly grey in color.
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Examples with “grisáceo”
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El cielo se puso de un azul grisáceo. — The sky turned a greyish blue.
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¿Por qué el agua del estanque está tan grisácea? — Why is the water in the pond so greyish?
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Llevaba una chaqueta grisácea que había visto tiempos mejores. — He wore a greyish jacket that had seen better days.
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Grisáceo sits a shade higher than English greyish. The -áceo ending comes straight from Latin and belongs to descriptive writing — paint charts, field guides, museum labels. In speech most people say gris claro or tirando a gris.
It agrees with its noun like any adjective, and the accent stays on the á in every form: un tono grisáceo, una barba grisácea, nubes grisáceas.
Forms of “grisáceo”
- grisáceo masculine singular
- grisácea feminine singular
- grisáceos masculine plural
- grisáceas feminine plural
Common phrases with “grisáceo”
- un cielo grisáceo a greyish sky
- un tono grisáceo a greyish tone
- una barba grisácea a greyish beard
- agua grisácea murky water
- tirando a gris a bit grey — how you would actually say it
How “grisáceo” differs from similar words
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gris grey
The base colour. Grisáceo is an approximation to it, not a synonym.
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gris apagado dull grey
For a grey that is flat rather than faint. Grisáceo is about how much grey, apagado about how alive it looks.
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plomizo leaden
Heavier and darker, and above all about a sky before a storm.
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ceniciento ashen
Of a face that has lost its colour. Grisáceo about a face sounds clinical.
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agrisar to turn grey
The verb. Grisáceo is the state it leads to.
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