gray

Meaning

Adj

1. Of a gray hue.
2. Dreary, gloomy.
3. Of an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
4. Gray-haired.
5. Old.
6. Relating to older people.

Verb

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

Noun

1. An achromatic colour between black and white.
2. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
3. A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
4. Synonym of grey alien
5. A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

Noun

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy

Synonyms

grey

grey

dull

grizzly

colourless

colourless

turned grey

grayish

turned gray

ash-colored

hoary

colorless

inexpressive

colorless

expressionless

😑

brown

hoar

gray-haired

greyish

white

pale

Gy

blue

grey-headed

pallid

faceless

somber

vapid

grayness

gray-headed

white-haired

grey-haired

old

🧓

colourless

greyness

impersonal

inadequate

insipid

ashen

dappled gray

ambiguous

ancient

antigue

Ash Wednesday

ashy

cloudy

☁️

dark blue

drab

dun

elderly

foggy

🌁

frosted

gloomy

griseous

leaden

light blue

obscure

patriarchal

pessimistic

roan

superannuated

ash color

ash-gray

turn gray

dappled grey

aged

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
See also Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár); also Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).

Sentences

Next to a bright red couch , a gray wall will appear distinctly greenish .