Gray

Quick meaning: Gray is an adjective meaning Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (sometimes figurative) Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
2. Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.
3. Gray-haired.
4. Relating to older people.
5. (ergative) To turn gray.
6. (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 gray dollar

My hair is beginning to gray.

I have already gone gray and lost my looks.

the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation

Word Forms

• grayer
• grayest
• grays
• graying
• grayed

Synonyms for gray

Depending on context, synonyms include grayish, grizzly, griseous, hoary, bleak, sombre.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greyness, greyish, grey-headed, gray-haired, grayish, grey.

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