ashen

Speech parts

1. ashen - Noun

2. ashen - Adjective

3. ashen - Verb

4. ashen - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the ash tree.

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.

obs. pl. for Ashes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

white bloodless livid blanched ashy woody wan haggard heather ash milky peaky gray ivory oyster
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Antonyms

brown dahlia black brunet red stone
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Phrases with the word

ashen hue ashen grey ashen lace ashen bat ashen pink ashen-breasted

Anagrams

hanse Ehsan Sanhe Shane Shean Sneha

Examples

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken. Geoffrey Chaucer

The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year. Edgar Allan Poe

The value of my cry great will be its advantage to degrees. The chief of men, shield of warriors. The extensive booty of the ashen shaft is my fair Awen. A shield before a prince, bright his smile, Heroic, aspiring, the most heroic is Urien. Taliesin

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. Vladimir Nabokov

a face turned ashen Source: Internet

the invalid's blanched cheeks Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Ashe juniper Ashe's calamint Asheboro ashen bat ashen grey ashen hue