Defenition of the word grey

• Defenition of the word grey

  • 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"
  • 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
  • Englishman who as Prime minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
  • Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
  • United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
  • 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
  • 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 grey

• • dull
  • gray
  • gray-haired
  • gray-headed
  • grayish
  • grayness
  • grey-haired
  • grey-headed
  • greyish
  • greyness
  • hoar
  • hoary
  • leaden
  • white-haired

Similar words in the grey

• • achromatic
  • cloudy
  • colorless
  • intermediate
  • old
  • southern

Meronymys for the word grey

• • House of Tudor
  • Tudor

Hyponyms for the word grey

• • 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 grey

• • achromatic color
  • achromatic colour
  • apparel
  • article of clothing
  • author
  • clothes
  • clothing
  • color
  • color in
  • colorise
  • colorize
  • colour
  • colour in
  • colourise
  • colourize
  • discolor
  • discolour
  • habiliment
  • mount
  • national leader
  • organisation
  • organization
  • Queen of England
  • riding horse
  • saddle horse
  • solon
  • statesman
  • surname
  • vesture
  • wear
  • wearable
  • wearing apparel
  • writer

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