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slatier

slatier is the comparative form of slaty.

Meaning of slaty

Adjective

slaty (comparative slatier, superlative slatiest)

  1. Resembling the rock slate.
    • Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Isle of the Torturers", Weird Tales
  2. Of a light grey colour as slate.
    • But snow had now begun to fall out of a forbiddingly slaty-grey sky, and this seemed to depress both engine and crew.1949 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 192

Questions about slatier

What is slatier the comparative form of?
Slatier is the comparative form of slaty.

Words near slatier in the dictionary

  1. slather
  2. slathered
  3. slathering
  4. slatherings
  5. slathers
  6. slatier
  7. slatiest
  8. slatily
  9. Slatina
  10. Slatina-Timiș
  11. slatiness

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