grisy

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adjective

Grim, grisly.

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Meanings

grisy1

adjectivegrisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

comparative more grisy · superlative most grisy

  1. obsoleteGrim, grisly.

    And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast, / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

grisy2

adjectivegrisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

comparative more grisy · superlative most grisy

  1. obsoleteGrey; grizzled.

    So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade / Was all disperst out of the firmament, / They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
grisly

Origin

grisy · adjective

From grise + -y.

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grisy · adjective

From gris + -y.

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MLA

“grisy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grisy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grisy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grisy.

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