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grisy

grisy adjective: grim, grisly.

Adjective (1)

grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

  1. (obsolete) Grim, grisly.
    • And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast, / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Adjective (2)

grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

  1. (obsolete) Grey; grizzled.
    • So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade / Was all disperst out of the firmament, / They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

grisy meaning in Urdu

grisy in Urdu

بھیانک, خوفناک

Forms of grisy

comparativemore grisy
superlativemost grisy

Origin of grisy

From grise + -y.

From gris + -y.

Questions about grisy

What does grisy mean?
Grisy means grim, grisly.
What is grisy in Urdu?
Grisy in Urdu is بھیانک, خوفناک. See Grisy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is grisy?
Grisy is an adjective.

Words near grisy in the dictionary

  1. Griswald
  2. Griswold
  3. Griswolds
  4. Griswoldville
  5. Griswood
  6. grisy
  7. grit
  8. grit cell
  9. grit cells
  10. Grit City
  11. grit one's teeth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grisy (page history and authors); grisy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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