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/ˈæʃi/ · adjective
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,
Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand, Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,
Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.
Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.
Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,
[…] where yet the Embers glow, Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw, And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.
[…] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.
He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.
Use ashy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ashy means Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc..
Common synonyms include ashen, cineraceous, cinereous, achromatic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets, Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,
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