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Grey
noun
1 Grey
United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939).
synonym: Zane Grey.
2 Grey
Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554).
synonym: Lady Jane Grey.
3 Grey
Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845).
synonyms: Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey.
4 grey
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey:
— The Confederate army was a vast grey.
synonym: gray.
5 grey
A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black.
synonyms: gray, grayness, greyness.
Dutch: grijze, grijs, gray
Polish: siność, szarość, szarzyzna
6 grey
Clothing that is a grey color:
— He was dressed in grey.
synonym: gray.
7 grey
Horse of a light gray or whitish color.
synonym: gray.
Polish: siwosz, siwy, siwek
verb
1 grey
Make grey:
— The painter decided to grey the sky.
synonym: gray.
2 grey
Turn grey:
— Her hair began to grey.
synonym: gray.
Dutch: grijzen
adjective
1 grey
Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black:
— The little grey cells.
— A man with greyish hair.
synonyms: gray, grayish, greyish.
Polish: szary
2 grey
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.
synonyms: gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, 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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Polish: posiwiały, przyprószony siwizną, siwy, osiwiały, zsiwiały
3 grey
Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms):
— A stalwart grey figure.
synonym: gray.
4 grey
Intermediate in character or position:
— A grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal.
synonym: gray.
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, cheerless, chestnut, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, cloudy, colorless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, depressing, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, drabness, drear, drearisome, dreary, dull, dullness, dun, dusty, elderly, etiolated, experienced, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, foggy, funebrial, funereal, ghastly, glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucousness, gloomy, glum, grave, gray, 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, mature, mealy, misty, monotonous, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousiness, mousy, muddy, murky, neutral, neutral tint, old, old as Methuselah, overcast, 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, sooty, sorrel, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, sunless, 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, wise, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old ... show more.
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