Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
gray (adjective)1.
a) of the color gray
b) tending toward gray - blue-gray eyes
c) dull in color
2.
having the hair gray - hoary
3.
clothed in gray
4.
a) lacking cheer or brightness in mood, outlook, style, or flavor , also - dismal gloomy a gray day
b) prosaically ordinary - dull uninteresting
5.
having an intermediate and often vaguely defined position, condition, or character - an ethically gray area
1.
something (as an animal, garment, cloth, or spot) of a gray color
2.
any of a series of neutral colors ranging between black and white
3.
a) a soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War
b) often capitalized the Confederate army
transitive verb
intransitive verb
to make gray
1.
to become gray
2.
- age , also to contain an increasing percentage of older people
the mks unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of one joule per kilogram of irradiated material - abbreviation Gy
Asa 1810–1888 Am. botanist
Thomas 1716–1771 Eng. poet
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
gray (adjective)1.
of the color gray
SYNONIMS:
argentine, grayish, leaden, pewter, silver, silvery, slate, slaty ( slatey), steelyRELATED WORDS:
achromatic, colorless, neutral; dirty, dull, faded, sad, washed-out; ashen, ashy, chalky, livid, mousy ( mousey), pale, palish, white, whitish; chocolate, dun, sandy, sepia; brindled ( brindle), grizzled, hoar, hoaryNEAR ANTONYMS:
ablaze, bright, deep, gay, rich; chromatic, colored; colorful, motley, multicolored, polychromatic, polychrome, varicolored, variegated2.
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
SYNONIMS:
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich, elegiac ( elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray ( grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber ( sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretchedRELATED WORDS:
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful; dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting; desperate, hopeless, pessimistic; lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful; colorless, drab, dull; dour, grim, lowering ( louring), lowery ( loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threateningNEAR ANTONYMS:
blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful; encouraging, hopeful, optimistic; lighthearted, lightsome