grey has definitions from the fields of clothing,color,fine art,politics,writing
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[ adjective ] (color) an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white

Synonyms

gray greyish grayish

Examples

"gray flannel suit" "hair just turning gray"

Used in print

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study , a gentle old_man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes , robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head .

Related terms

achromatic

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[ noun ] (color) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
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[ verb ] (color) turn gray

Synonyms

gray

Examples

"Her hair began to gray"

Related terms

discolor gray

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[ verb ] (fine art,color) make gray

Synonyms

gray

Examples

"The painter decided to grey the sky"

Related terms

color color gray

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[ noun ] (politics) Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)

Synonyms

lady_jane_grey

Related terms

queen_of_england Tudor

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[ adjective ] darkened with overcast

Synonyms

gray leaden dull

Examples

"a dark day" "a dull sky" "a gray rainy afternoon" "gray clouds" "the sky was leaden and thick"

Related terms

cloudy

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[ adjective ] intermediate in character or position

Synonyms

gray

Examples

"a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

Related terms

intermediate

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[ adjective ] used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms)

Synonyms

gray

Examples

"a stalwart gray figure"

Related terms

southern

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[ adjective ] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair

Examples

"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge "nodded his hoary head"

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old

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[ noun ] (politics) Englishman who as Prime minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)

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statesman

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[ noun ] any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray

Synonyms

gray

Examples

"the Confederate army was a vast gray"

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[ noun ] (writing) United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)

Synonyms

zane_grey

Related terms

writer

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[ adjective ] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair

Examples

"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge "nodded his hoary head"

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old

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 2782
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[ noun ] (clothing) gray clothing

Synonyms

gray

Examples

"he was dressed in gray"

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clothing

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