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Grey

adjective
/ɡɹeɪ/
Word Frequency: 15.2

Definitions

1.adjectiveHaving a color.
"Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding."
2.adjectiveHaving a particular color or kind of color.
"The room was red, with a dark-colored rug."
3.adjectiveHaving prominent colors; colorful.
"The singer wore a colored shirt."
4.adjectiveInfluenced pervasively but subtly.
"My opinions are colored by my upbringing."
5.adjectiveOf skin color other than white; in particular, black.
6.adjectiveOf neither black nor white skin color.
"Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites."
7.adjectiveDesignated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
"a colored drinking fountain"
8.nounAn achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
9.nounAn animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
10.nounAn extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
11.verbTo become grey.
"My hair is beginning to grey."
12.verbTo cause to become grey.
13.verbTo turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
"the greying of Europe"
14.verbTo give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
15.adjectiveHaving a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
16.adjectiveDreary, gloomy.
17.adjectiveHaving an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
18.adjectiveRelating to older people.
"the grey dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly"

Synonyms

greyishgraynessgrey-headedgreynessgray-hairedgrayishgraygray-headedgrey-hairedhoarywhite-hairedhoar

Rhymes With

conveydisplaydismaysobriquetdisarrayallaygaydecay
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