Gray — synonyms, definition

1. gray (a) US

aged decrepit grizzled grizzly hoary old salt-and-pepper white-haired

2. gray (US) US

ashen dingy dirty white drab dusky grizzled half-tone leaden neutral shaded silvery

3. gray (Adjective) US

gray-haired gray-headed grayish grey grey-haired grey-headed greyish hoar

gray (Adjective) — Of an achromatic colour of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black. ex. "gray flannel suit"

gray (Adjective) — Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair. ex. "whose beard with age is gray"

gray (Adjective) — Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms). ex. "a stalwart gray figure"

gray (Adjective) — Intermediate in character or position. ex. "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

4. gray (Noun) US

Asa Gray Gy Louis Harold Gray Robert Gray Thomas Gray grayness greyness

gray (Noun) — A neutral achromatic colour midway between white and black.

gray (Noun) — Clothing that is a grey colour. ex. "he was dressed in gray"

gray (Noun) — Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey. ex. "the Confederate army was a vast gray"

gray (Noun) — Horse of a light grey or whitish colour.

gray (Noun) — The SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one grey equals 100 rad.

gray (Noun) — English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771).

gray (Noun) — American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806).

gray (Noun) — United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888).

gray (Noun) — English radiobiologist in whose honour the grey (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965).

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5. gray (Verb) US

gray (Verb) — Make grey. ex. "The painter decided to gray the sky"

gray (Verb) — Turn grey. ex. "Her hair began to gray"

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