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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.
421.
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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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