Gray

/ɡɹeɪ/ · adjective

Meaning

Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
2. (sometimes figurative) Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
3. Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.
4. Gray-haired.
5. Old.
6. Relating to older people.
7. (ergative) To turn gray.
8. (demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

Example Sentences

the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation

It's a pretty grey outlook for England if these are a sample of the mothers of the coming generation.

I have already gone gray and lost my looks.

Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]

In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places.

the gray dollar

February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.

My hair is beginning to gray.

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Word Forms

• grayer
• more gray
• grayest
• most gray
• grey
• grays
• graying
• grayed

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