grey
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/ɡɹeɪ/
English
Definitions
adjective
- Having a color.“Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.”
- Having a particular color or kind of color.“The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.”
- Having prominent colors; colorful.“The singer wore a colored shirt.”
- Influenced pervasively but subtly.“My opinions are colored by my upbringing.”
noun
- An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
- An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
- An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
verb
- To become grey.“My hair is beginning to grey.”
- To cause to become grey.
- To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.“the greying of Europe”
- To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
adjective
- Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
- Dreary, gloomy.
- Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
- Relating to older people.“the grey dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly”
Related words
Synonyms
greyishgraynessgrey-headedgreynessgray-hairedgrayishgraygray-headedgrey-hairedhoarywhite-hairedhoarleadencloudycolorlessachromatic