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Defenition of the word gray

    • Defenition of the word gray

      • To become grey.
      • Having a colour between black and white, like ash or stone.
      • darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
      • clothed in gray or a gray costume; "Gray Ladies are volunteer workers in the American Red Cross"; "the Gray Friars are Franciscan friars who traditionally wear gray habits"
      • horse of a light grey or whitish color
      • a neutral achromatic color midway between while and black
      • intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
      • used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"
      • gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"
      • any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"
      • turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"
      • make gray
      • showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
      • an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"
      • a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
      • United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin''s theories of evolution (1810-1888)
      • American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
      • English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)
      • make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky"
      • horse of a light gray or whitish color
      • clothing that is a grey color
      • any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
      • United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
      • English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
      • English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
      • 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 gray equals 100 rad
      • turn grey
      • make grey
      • of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
      • intermediate in character or position
      • used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
      • showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

    Synonyms for the word gray

      • aged
      • ancient
      • bleak
      • cloudy
      • colorless
      • depressing
      • drab
      • dreary
      • dull
      • foggy
      • gray-haired
      • gray-headed
      • grayish
      • grayness
      • grey
      • grey-haired
      • grey-headed
      • greyish
      • greyness
      • hoar
      • hoary
      • leaden
      • lifeless
      • melancholy
      • old
      • older
      • overcast
      • uninspiring
      • white-haired

    Similar words in the gray

      • achromatic
      • cloudy
      • colorless
      • gray
      • gray's
      • graybeard
      • graybeard's
      • graybeards
      • grayed
      • grayer
      • grayest
      • graying
      • grayish
      • grayness
      • grays
      • intermediate
      • old
      • southern

    Hyponyms for the word gray

      • Army of the Confederacy
      • ash gray
      • ash grey
      • charcoal
      • charcoal gray
      • charcoal grey
      • Confederate Army
      • dapple-gray
      • dapple-grey
      • dappled-gray
      • dappled-grey
      • Davy's gray
      • davy's grey
      • iron blue
      • iron-gray
      • iron-grey
      • oxford gray
      • oxford grey
      • silver
      • silver gray
      • silver grey
      • steel gray
      • steel grey
      • tattletale gray
      • tattletale grey

    Hypernyms for the word gray

      • achromatic color
      • achromatic colour
      • apparel
      • article of clothing
      • botanist
      • clothes
      • clothing
      • color
      • color in
      • colorise
      • colorize
      • colour
      • colour in
      • colourise
      • colourize
      • discolor
      • discolour
      • habiliment
      • mount
      • navigator
      • organisation
      • organization
      • phytologist
      • plant scientist
      • poet
      • radioactivity unit
      • radiobiologist
      • riding horse
      • saddle horse
      • vesture
      • wear
      • wearable
      • wearing apparel

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