(a.) Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

Quaker-colored achromatic achromic acier adust aghast anemic appalled ashy astounded awed awestricken awestruck blanched bleached bled white blistered bloodless burned burnt burnt-up cadaverous canescent chloranemic cinereous cinerous colorless consumed consumed by fire corpselike cowed dapple dapple-gray dappled dappled-gray dead deadly pale deathly pale decolorized dim dimmed dingy discolored dismal doughy dove-colored dove-gray dreary dull dusty etiolated exsanguinated exsanguine exsanguineous faded faint fallow flat frozen ghastly ghostly glaucescent glaucous gray gray with fear gray-black gray-brown gray-colored gray-drab gray-green gray-spotted gray-toned gray-white grayed grayish griseous grizzle grizzled grizzly gutted haggard horrified horror-struck hueless hypochromic incinerated intimidated iron-gray lackluster lead-gray leaden livid lurid lusterless macabre mat mealy mouse-colored mouse-gray mousy muddy neutral pale pale as death pale-faced pallid paralyzed parched pasty pearl pearl-gray pearly petrified pyrographic pyrolyzed sad sallow scared stiff scared to death scorched seared sickly silver silver-gray silvered silvery singed slate-colored slaty smoke-gray smoky sober somber steel-gray steely stone-colored stunned stupefied sunburned tallow-faced taupe terrified terror-crazed terror-haunted terror-ridden terror-riven terror-shaken terror-smitten terror-struck terror-troubled toneless uncolored undone unmanned unnerved unstrung wan washed-out waxen weak whey-faced white