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Type Words
Synonyms gray
Type of colorize, color, color in, colorise, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize


The painter decided to grey the sky.
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Synonyms charles grey, second earl grey
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Synonyms lady jane grey
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Synonyms gray
Type of clothing, wearable, wear, article of clothing, vesture, habiliment


he was dressed in grey.
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Synonyms gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
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Synonyms gray


a stalwart grey figure.
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Synonyms gray, grayness, greyness
Type of achromatic colour, achromatic color
Has types ash gray, ash grey, silver grey, steel gray, iron-gray, iron-grey, iron blue, oxford gray, oxford grey, tattletale grey, tattletale gray, steel grey, silver, silver gray, charcoal, charcoal gray, charcoal grey, dapple-gray, dapple-grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey, davy's gray, davy's grey
Type Words
Synonyms gray, grayish, greyish
Derivation greyness


the little grey cells.
a man with greyish hair.
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Synonyms zane grey
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Synonyms gray
Type of mount, riding horse, saddle horse
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Synonyms gray
Type of organisation, organization
Has types army of the confederacy, confederate army


the Confederate army was a vast grey.
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Synonyms gray
Type of colour, discolor, color, discolour


Her hair began to grey.
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Synonyms gray


a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal.

Examples of grey

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Tired of hearing your brain is going to be mush by the time you're old and grey?
From the abcnews.go.com
Use grey-market end-user resources to evaluate potential anti-corruption issues.
From the forbes.com
Children just see a sheep in a field, whether it be black, grey, white or beige.
From the telegraph.co.uk
His attacker is described as being male and wearing a grey hooded top and jeans.
From the hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk
I wore high-waisted pinstriped trousers and a grey shirt with an art deco print.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Her husband David played it safe in a grey tie and morning suit by Ralph Lauren.
From the cnn.com
Neglect from fathers, though not mothers, also correlated with less grey matter.
From the newscientist.com
Until then, the giant ancestors of today's penguins were grey and reddish-brown.
From the newscientist.com
The sky's still grey as I empty the smoker, pack up my bag and put my jacket on.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
  • Make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky"
  • 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"
  • Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
  • Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
  • Turn grey; "Her hair began to grey"
  • Gray or grey is a coat color of horses characterized by progressive silvering of the colored hairs of the coat. Most gray horses have black skin and dark eyes; unlike many depigmentation genes, gray does not affect skin or eye color"Pigmentation of the skin and eyes is not affected by G^G. ...
  • Grey is a Japanese science fiction manga created by Yoshihisa Tagami that was published in the 1980s.
  • Grey is a former New Zealand Parliamentary electorate. The electorate of Grey Valley, created for the New Zealand general election 1871, was succeeded by the electorate of Greymouth in the 1881 election, and lasted until 1890. In 1890 the Grey electorate was created, and lasted until 1919.