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Gray

/ɡɹeɪ/

An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

📖 Definitions of "Gray"

noun

1
An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
2
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
3
An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
4
A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

verb

1
To become gray.
"My hair is beginning to gray."
2
To cause to become gray.
3
To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
"the graying of America"
4
To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

adjective

1
Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
2
Dreary, gloomy.
3
Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
4
Relating to older people.
"the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly"

20 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
dullverb	Boring; not exciting or interesting.
hoary	White or grey with age.
achromatic	(optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
oldnoun	Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
leadenverb	Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.
intermediatenoun	Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
cloudy	Covered with or characterised by clouds.
greynoun	Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
colorless	US standard spelling of colourless. [Having little or no colour.]
white-haired	Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
grayish	Somewhat gray.
greyish	Alternative spelling of grayish. [Somewhat gray.]
gray-headed	Having gray hair, especially from age
graynessnoun	Alternative form of greyness. [The quality or state of being grey.]
greynessnoun	The quality or state of being grey.
gray-haired	Alternative form of grey-haired. [Having grey hair.]
grey-haired	Having grey hair.
grey-headed	Alternative form of gray-headed. [Having gray hair, especially from age]
hoarnoun	Of a white or greyish-white colour.
southernnoun	Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
greynessnoun	The quality or state of being grey.
greyish	Alternative spelling of grayish. [Somewhat gray.]
grey-headed	Alternative form of gray-headed. [Having gray hair, especially from age]
gray-haired	Alternative form of grey-haired. [Having grey hair.]
grayish	Somewhat gray.
greynoun	Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
gray-headed	Having gray hair, especially from age
grey-haired	Having grey hair.
hoarnoun	Of a white or greyish-white colour.
hoary	White or grey with age.
white-haired	Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
leadenverb	Pertaining to or resembling lead; grey, heavy, sluggish.
cloudy	Covered with or characterised by clouds.
colorless	US standard spelling of colourless. [Having little or no colour.]
achromatic	(optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
oldnoun	Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
intermediatenoun	Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
southernnoun	Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
dullverb	Boring; not exciting or interesting.
grizzled	Grey or partly grey.