'Grey' definitions:
Definition of 'grey'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair" [syn: grey, gray, greyish, grayish]
adjective
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray- haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
adjective
Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure" [syn: grey, gray]
adjective
Intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal" [syn: grey, gray]
noun
United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939) [syn: Grey, Zane Grey]
noun
Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554) [syn: Grey, Lady Jane Grey]
noun
Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845) [syn: Grey, Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey]
noun
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey" [syn: grey, gray]
noun
noun
Clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey" [syn: grey, gray]
noun
Horse of a light gray or whitish color [syn: grey, gray]
verb
Make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky" [syn: grey, gray]
verb
Turn grey; "Her hair began to grey" [syn: grey, gray]
Definition of 'grey'
From: GCIDE
- Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.] [OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw, OHG. gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.] [Written also grey.]
- 1. any color of neutral hue between white and black; white mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. [1913 Webster]
- These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. -- Ames. [1913 Webster]
- 4. gloomy; dismal. [PJC]
- Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
- Gray buck (Zool.), the chickara.
- Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
- Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
- Gray duck (Zool.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard.
- Gray falcon (Zool.) the peregrine falcon.
- Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
- Gray hen (Zool.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See Heath grouse.
- Gray mill or Gray millet (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
- Gray mullet (Zool.) any one of the numerous species of the genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in the Old World and America; as the European species (Mugilid[ae] capito, and Mugilid[ae] auratus), the American striped mullet (Mugilid[ae] albula), and the white or silver mullet (Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis). See Mullet.
- Gray owl (Zool.), the European tawny or brown owl ({Syrnium aluco}). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits arctic America.
- Gray parrot (Zool.), an African parrot ({Psittacus erithacus}), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. Also called jako.
- Gray pike. (Zool.) See Sauger.
- Gray snapper (Zool.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper.
- Gray snipe (Zool.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
- Gray whale (Zool.), a rather large and swift whale of the northern Pacific (Eschrichtius robustus, formerly Rhachianectes glaucus), having short jaws and no dorsal fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet). It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of California, and is now rare; -- called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead. It lives up to 50 or 60 years and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grey'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Quaker-colored,
- 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
Words containing 'Grey'
- greyed,
- greyness,
- Grey Eagle,
- Grey Forest,
- african grey,
- ash grey,
- charcoal grey,
- charles grey,
- davy's grey,
- grey alder,
- grey area,
- grey birch,
- grey catbird,
- grey flounder,
- grey fox,
- grey friar,
- grey goldenrod,
- grey hen,
- grey jay,
- grey kingbird,
- grey lemming,
- grey market,
- grey matter,
- grey mullet,
- grey partridge,
- grey polypody,
- grey poplar,
- grey sage,
- grey skate,
- grey snapper,
- grey sole,
- grey substance,
- grey whale,
- grey willow,
- grey wolf,
- oxford grey,
- payne's grey,
- pearl grey,
- silver grey,
- steel grey,
- tattletale grey,
- zane grey,
- Grey Eagle, MN,
- Grey Forest, TX,
- american grey birch,
- ash-grey,
- black-grey,
- blackish-grey,
- blue-grey,
- bluish-grey,
- brown-grey,
- brownish-grey,
- charcoal-grey,
- dapple-grey,
- dappled-grey,
- dark-grey,
- dwarf grey willow,
- eastern grey squirrel,
- great grey kangaroo,
- great grey owl,
- greenish-grey,
- grey sea eagle,
- grey-black,
- grey-blue,
- grey-brown,
- grey-green,
- grey-haired,
- grey-headed,
- grey-pink,
- grey-white,
- iron-grey,
- lady jane grey,
- olive-grey,
- oxford-grey,
- red-grey,
- reddish-grey,
- second earl grey,
- silver-grey,
- silvery-grey,
- slate-grey,
- slaty-grey,
- stone-grey,
- western grey squirrel,
- yellow-grey,
- yellowish-grey,
- grey-leaf pine