adjective
- resembling slate in color, texture, or appearance; having a dark bluish-gray color
Examples
- The slatey clouds promised rain by evening.
- Her slatey eyes reflected the stormy weather.
- The old building had a slatey roof that gleamed when wet.
- The lake’s surface turned slatey under the overcast sky.
- He painted the walls a slatey blue-gray color.
- The slatey rocks along the shore were smooth from years of waves.