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Gray noun
1 gray A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black.
synonyms: grayness , grey , greyness .
Roget 432 :gray
etc.
adj.;
neutral tint ,
silver ,
pepper and salt ,
chiaroscuro ,
grisaille [Fr.] .
[Pigments]
Payne's gray ;
black
etc.
431
Dutch: grijze, grijs, gray Polish: siność, szarość, szarzyzna
2 gray Clothing that is a grey color.
synonym: grey .
3 gray Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey.
synonym: grey .
4 gray Horse of a light gray or whitish color.
synonym: grey .
Polish: siwosz, siwy, siwek
5 gray The SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad.
synonym: Gy .
Polish: Gy, grej
6 Gray English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965).
synonym: Louis Harold Gray .
7 Gray English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771).
synonym: Thomas Gray .
8 Gray American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806).
synonym: Robert Gray .
9 Gray United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888).
synonym: Asa Gray .
verb
1 gray Make grey.
synonym: grey .
Roget 431 :be black
etc.
adj.;
render black
etc.
adj..
blacken ,
infuscate † ,
denigrate ;
blot ,
blotch ;
smutch † ;
smirch ;
darken
etc.
421 black ,
sable ,
swarthy ,
somber ,
dark ,
inky ,
ebony ,
ebon ,
atramentous † ,
jetty ;
coal-black ,
jet-black ;
fuliginous † ,
pitchy ,
sooty ,
swart ,
dusky ,
dingy ,
murky ,
Ethiopic ;
low-toned ,
low in tone ;
of the deepest dye .
black as jet
etc.
n.,
black as my hat ,
black as a shoe ,
black as a tinker's pot ,
black as November ,
black as thunder ,
black as midnight ;
nocturnal
etc.
(dark)
421 nigrescent † ;
gray
etc.
432 obscure
etc.
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2 gray Turn grey.
synonym: grey .
Dutch: grijzen
adjective
1 gray Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black:— Gray flannel suit.
synonyms: grayish , grey , greyish .
Polish: szary
2 gray Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.
synonyms: gray-haired , gray-headed , grey , grey-haired , grey-headed , grizzly , hoar , hoary , white-haired .
Roget 432 :gray ,
grey ;
iron-gray ,
dun ,
drab ,
dingy ,
leaden ,
livid ,
somber ,
sad ,
pearly ,
russet ,
roan ;
calcareous ,
limy ,
favillous † ;
silver ,
silvery ,
silvered ;
ashen ,
ashy ;
cinereous † ,
cineritious † ;
grizzly ,
grizzled ;
slate-colored ,
stone-colored ,
mouse-colored ,
ash-colored ;
cool .
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Roget 128 :aged ;
old
etc.
124 elderly ,
geriatric ,
senile ;
matronly ,
anile † ;
in years ;
ripe ,
mellow ,
run to seed ,
declining ,
waning ,
past one's prime ;
gray ,
gray-headed ;
hoar ,
hoary ;
venerable ,
time-worn ,
antiquated ,
passe ,
effete ,
decrepit ,
superannuated ;
advanced in life ,
advanced in years ;
stricken in years ;
wrinkled ,
marked withthe crow's foot ;
having one foot in the grave ;
doting
etc.
(imbecile)
499 like the last of pea time .
older ,
elder ,
eldest ;
senior ;
firstborn .
turned of ,
years old ;
of a certain age ,
no chicken ,
old as Methuselah ;
ancestral ,
patriarchal ,
etc.
(ancient)
124 gerontic .
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Polish: posiwiały, przyprószony siwizną, siwy, osiwiały, zsiwiały
3 gray Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms).
synonym: grey .
4 gray Intermediate in character or position.
synonym: grey .
Moby thesaurus: Quaker-colored , 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 , chloranemic , cinereous , cinerous , colorless , dapple , dapple-gray , dappled , dappled-gray , dark , dead , deadly pale , deathly pale , dim , dimmed , dingy , discolored , dismal , dove-colored , dove-gray , drab , drabness , drear , drearisome , dreary , dull , dullness , dun , dusty , elderly , etiolated , exsanguinated , exsanguine , exsanguineous , faded , faint , fallow , flat , funebrial , funereal , ghastly , glaucescence , glaucescent , glaucous , glaucousness , gloomy , grave , gray with age , gray-black , gray-brown , gray-colored , gray-drab , gray-green , gray-haired , gray-headed , gray-spotted , gray-toned , gray-white , grayed , grayish , grayishness , grayness , grim , griseous , grizzle , grizzled , grizzly , grown old , haggard , hoar , hoary , hueless , humdrum , hypochromic , iron-gray , lackluster , lead-gray , leaden , leadenness , livid , lividity , lividness , lurid , lusterless , mat , mealy , monotonous , mouse-colored , mouse-gray , mousiness , mousy , muddy , neutral , neutral tint , old , old as Methuselah , paint , painted pony , pale , pale as death , pale-faced , pallid , pasty , patriarchal , pearl , pearl-gray , pearly , piebald , pinto , repetitive , roan , sad , sallow , same , samely , saturnine , senectuous , sickly , silver , silver-gray , silvered , silveriness , silvery , skewbald , slate-colored , slatiness , slaty , smoke-gray , smokiness , smoky , sober , soberness , solemn , somber , somberness , sombrous , sorrel , steel-gray , steely , stone-colored , tallow-faced , taupe , tedious , toneless , triste , uncolored , unrelieved , venerable , wan , washed-out , waxen , weak , weariful , wearisome , weary , whey-faced , white , white with age , white-bearded , white-crowned , white-haired , wrinkled , wrinkly , years old ... show more .
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