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| Sounds | grey' |
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| Rhymes | ashtray, astray, betray, and 32 more rhymes in rey at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white. |
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| Examples | "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray" |
| Synonyms | grey, grayish, greyish |
| Similar to | achromatic |
| Adverbs | grayly |
| Meaning | Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair. |
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| Synonyms | grey, gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| Similar to | old |
| Meaning | Darkened with overcast. |
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| Examples | "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds" |
| Synonyms | dull, grey, leaden |
| Similar to | cloudy |
| Meaning | Used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms). |
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| Examples | "a stalwart gray figure" |
| Synonyms | grey |
| Similar to | southern |
| Meaning | Intermediate in character or position. |
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| Examples | "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal" |
| Synonyms | grey |
| Similar to | intermediate |
| Meaning | A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black. |
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| Synonyms | grayness, grey, greyness |
| Narrower | ash gray, ash grey, silver, silver gray, silver grey; charcoal, charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey; dapple-gray, dapple-grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey; iron-gray, iron-grey; tattletale gray, tattletale grey; iron blue, steel gray, Davy's gray |
| Broader | achromatic color, achromatic colour |
| Verbs | gray; gray |
| Meaning | Gray clothing. |
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| Examples | "he was dressed in gray" |
| Synonyms | grey |
| Broader | clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear |
| Meaning | Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray. |
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| Examples | "the Confederate army was a vast gray" |
| Synonyms | grey |
| Narrower | Confederate Army, Army of the Confederacy |
| Broader | organization, organisation |
| Meaning | Horse of a light grey or whitish color. |
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| Broader | saddle horse, riding horse, mount |
| Meaning | English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771). |
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| Synonyms | Thomas Gray |
| Broader | poet |
| Meaning | American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806). |
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| Synonyms | Robert Gray |
| Broader | navigator |
| Meaning | United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888). |
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| Synonyms | Asa Gray |
| Broader | botanist, phytologist, plant scientist |
| Meaning | Make gray. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | grey |
| Broader | color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in |
| Nouns | gray |
| Meaning | Turn gray. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "Her hair began to gray" |
| Synonyms | grey |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color |
| Nouns | gray |