gray

Roget category 432

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#432. Gray

noun

gray etc. adj. — neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille [Fr.].
[Pigments] Payne's gray — black etc. 431.

adjective

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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