adjective
- having the color of ashes; ash-gray
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The cinereous clouds gathered ominously overhead.
- Her hair had turned a cinereous shade with age.
- The volcanic ash left a cinereous coating on everything.
- The bird’s cinereous plumage helped it blend with the rocks.
- The old photograph had faded to cinereous tones.
- The artist used cinereous pigments to create the stormy sky.