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Gray

noun
/ɡɹeɪ/
Word Frequency: 26.4

Definitions

1.nounAn achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
2.nounAn animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
3.nounAn extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
4.nounA penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
5.verbTo become gray.
"My hair is beginning to gray."
6.verbTo cause to become gray.
7.verbTo turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
"the graying of America"
8.verbTo give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
9.adjectiveHaving a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
10.adjectiveDreary, gloomy.
11.adjectiveHaving an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
12.adjectiveRelating to older people.
"the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly"

Synonyms

greynessgreyishgrey-headedgray-hairedgrayishgreygray-headedgrey-hairedhoarhoarywhite-hairedleaden

Rhymes With

conveydisplaydismaysobriquetdisarrayallaygaydecay
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