Gray
[n] horse of a light grey or whitish color
[n] gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"
[n] a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
[n] any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"
[n] United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
[n] American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
[n] English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)
[adj] an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"
[adj] darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
[adj] intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
[adj] used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"
[adj] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
[adj] clothed in gray or a gray costume; "Gray Ladies are volunteer workers in the American Red Cross"; "the Gray Friars are Franciscan friars who traditionally wear gray habits"
[v] turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"
[v] make gray
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Synonyms
achromatic, Asa Gray, cloudy, dull, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey, grey, grey, grey, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, greyish, greyness, hoar, hoary, intermediate, leaden, old, Robert Gray, southern, Thomas Gray, white-haired
Related Terms
achromatic, achromic, acier, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, anemic, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, black, bleak, bled white, bloodless, boring, buckskin, cadaverous, calico pony, canescence, canescent, chestnut, c