Definitions for slaty

slaty slat·y

Spelling: [sley-tee]
IPA: /ˈsleɪ ti/

Slaty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in slaty (alsty).

Definitions for slaty

adjective

  1. consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to slate.
  2. having the color of slate.

Origin of slaty

First recorded in 1520-30; slate1 + -y1

Examples for slaty

slaty—Where the slaty substratum is much intermixed with the soil.

Those which I saw appeared to belong to that species of the silicious genus usually called Gneiss, a sort of slaty granite.

Sometimes the prismatic and slaty structure is found in the same mass.

The portions of the plumage that are black in the cock are slaty brown in the hen.

The color of this shark is slaty blue above and white beneath.

It was a cheerless February day, dark and slaty overhead, dusty below.

It was all of slaty formation, jagged, serrated, and gray with moss.

Puff-paste is, then, simply an exaggerated case of slaty cleavage.

Then comes the reef, where the water is all slaty purple flecked with red.

By the way, slaty, what do you make your nest of and where do you put it?

Word Value for slaty
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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