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ashier

ashier is the comparative form of ashy.

Meaning of ashy

Adjective

ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)

  1. Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.
    • Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets, / Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC
  2. Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.
    • Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie / Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,1591, Joachim du Bellay, “Ruines of Rome: By Bellay”, in Ed[mund] Sp[enser], transl., Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    cinereous
  3. (African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
    • It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs[…]1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 4, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 22

Questions about ashier

What is ashier the comparative form of?
Ashier is the comparative form of ashy.

Words near ashier in the dictionary

  1. Ashgrove
  2. ashhole
  3. ashiatsu
  4. Ashida
  5. Ashidas
  6. ashier
  7. ashiest
  8. Ashiestiel
  9. ashigaru
  10. ashik
  11. Ashikaga

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