About The Word Grey

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Grey

Grey Meaning & Definition
Grey Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Grey?

[n] gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"
[n] a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
[n] any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"
[n] Englishman who as Prime minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
[n] Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
[n] United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
[adj] an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"
[adj] darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
[adj] intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
[adj] used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"
[adj] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
[v] turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"
[v] make gray

Synonyms | Synonyms for Grey: achromatic | Charles Grey | cloudy | dull | gray | gray | gray | gray | gray | gray-haired | gray-headed | grayish | grayness | grey-haired | grey-headed | greyish | greyness | hoar | hoary | intermediate | Lady Jane Grey | leaden | old | Second Earl Grey | southern | white-haired | Zane Grey

Related Terms | Find terms related to Grey: achromatic | achromic | acier | advanced | advanced in life | advanced in years | aged | along in years | ancient | anemic | ashen | ashy | bay | bayard | black | bleak | bled white | bloodless | boring | buckskin | cadaverous | calico pony | canescence | canescent | cheerless | chestnut | chloranemic | cinereous | cinerous | cloudy | colorless | dapple | dappled | dappled-gray | dapple-gray | dark | dead | deadly pale | deathly pale | depressing | dim | dimmed | dingy | discolored | dismal | dove-colored | dove-gray | drab | drabness | drear | drearisome | dreary | dull | dullness | dun | dusty | elderly | etiolated | experienced | exsanguinated | exsanguine | exsanguineous | faded | faint | fallow | flat | foggy | funebrial | funereal | ghastly | glaucescence | glaucescent | glaucous | glaucousness | gloomy | glum | grave | gray | gray with age | gray-black | gray-brown | gray-colored | gray-drab | grayed | gray-green | gray-haired | gray-headed | grayish | grayishness | grayness | gray-spotted | gray-toned | gray-white | grim | griseous | grizzle | grizzled | grizzly | grown old | haggard | hoar | hoary | hueless | humdrum | hypochromic | iron-gray | lackluster | leaden | leadenness | lead-gray | livid | lividity | lividness | lurid | lusterless | mat | mature | mealy | misty | monotonous | mouse-colored | mouse-gray | mousiness | mousy | muddy | murky | neutral | neutral tint | old | old as Methuselah | overcast | paint | painted pony | pale | pale as death | pale-faced | pallid | pasty | patriarchal | pearl | pearl-gray | pearly | piebald | pinto | Quaker-colored | repetitive | roan | sad | sallow | same | samely | saturnine | senectuous | sickly | silver | silvered | silver-gray | silveriness | silvery | skewbald | slate-colored | slatiness | slaty | smoke-gray | smokiness | smoky | sober | soberness | solemn | somber | somberness | sombrous | sooty | sorrel | steel-gray | steely | stone-colored | sunless | tallow-faced | taupe | tedious | toneless | triste | uncolored | unrelieved | venerable | wan | washed-out | waxen | weak | weariful | wearisome | weary | whey-faced | white | white with age | white-bearded | white-crowned | white-haired | wise | wrinkled | wrinkly | years old

See Also | achromatic color | achromatic colour | apparel | article of clothing | ash gray | ash grey | author | charcoal | charcoal gray | charcoal grey | clothes | clothing | color | color in | colorise | colorize | colour | colour in | colourise | colourize | Confederate Army | dappled-gray | dappled-grey | dapple-gray | dapple-grey | Davy's gray | discolor | discolour | House of Tudor | iron blue | iron-gray | iron-grey | national leader | organisation | organization | oxford gray | oxford grey | Queen of England | silver | silver gray | silver grey | solon | statesman | steel gray | tattletale gray | tattletale grey | Tudor | vesture | wear | wearing apparel | writer

Grey In Webster's Dictionary

\Grey\, a. See {Gray} (the correct orthography).

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