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ashiness

ashiness noun: the quality of being ashy.

Noun

ashiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being ashy.
    • Jack Bigelow’s usually sunny face was bleached to the ashiness of fear and despair.1901, Onoto Watanna, chapter 13, in A Japanese Nightingale, New York: Harper, page 148
    • […] there was an ashiness about his clothes and his hair never settled and his eye had a look of tragic alarm when he wasn’t actually sleeping.2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, Toronto: HarperCollins, page 49

Origin of ashiness

From ashy + -ness.

Questions about ashiness

What does ashiness mean?
Ashiness means the quality of being ashy.
What part of speech is ashiness?
Ashiness is a noun.

Words near ashiness in the dictionary

  1. Ashill
  2. ashily
  3. ashimmer
  4. Ashina
  5. ashine
  6. ashiness
  7. ashing
  8. ashings
  9. Ashington
  10. aship
  11. ashipboard

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