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Gray area
An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy.
📖 Definitions of "Gray area"
noun
- 1
An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy.
"It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal."
- 2
A topic that is not clearly one thing or the other, that is open to interpretation.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Gray area"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| gray matternoun | (American spelling) Alternative spelling of grey matter. [(idiomatic) Brains; a person's ability to think.] |
| gray cellsnoun | (American spelling) Alternative spelling of grey cells. [(idiomatic) Brains; a person's ability to think, especially referring to intelligence.] |
| military graynoun | Alternative form of military grey. [A grey color of a dark greenish shade used in the military uniforms of certain armed forces.] |
| ash greynoun | Alternative form of ash gray. [A shade of gray that resembles the color of ashes.] |
| graywarenoun | Alternative form of greyware. [A style of ancient grey pottery painted with geometric patterns.] |
| middle-groundnoun | Alternative spelling of middle ground. [(figurative) A compromised position between extremes.] |
| ash-graynoun | Alternative form of ash gray. [A shade of gray that resembles the color of ashes.] |
| gray noisenoun | Alternative form of grey noise. [A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is perceived by the listener as equally loud at all frequencies.] |
| gray magicknoun | Alternative form of gray magic. [(Wicca) Any magic which transcends or blends white magic and black magic.] |
| grey eminencenoun | Alternative spelling of gray eminence. [Synonym of éminence grise.] |
| greymapnoun | Alternative form of graymap. [(computer graphics) A grayscale bitmap.] |
| slate greynoun | Alternative form of slate gray. [A dark bluish grey colour.] |
| grey magicnoun | Alternative form of gray magic. [(Wicca) Any magic which transcends or blends white magic and black magic.] |
| grey magicknoun | Alternative form of gray magic. [(Wicca) Any magic which transcends or blends white magic and black magic.] |
| centregroundnoun | Alternative form of centerground. [(often figuratively) The area between foreground and background; middle distance.] |
| whitespacenoun | (often attributive) Alternative form of white space. [White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).] |
| grid squarenoun | Alternative form of gridsquare. [A square on a two-dimensional grid] |
| complementary colornoun | (American spelling) Alternative form of complementary colour. [(British spelling, colour science) Either of two colours which, when mixed, produce a white or grey.] |
| gray friarnoun | Alternative spelling of greyfriar. [(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.] |
| zero gradenoun | Alternative form of zero-grade. [(Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, an ablaut form of a root characterized by the absence of the basic ablauting vowel phonemes */e/ and */o/.] |
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