Synonyms for gray

Noun

1. gray, grayness, grey, greyness, achromatic color, achromatic colour

usage: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

2. gray, grey, clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear

usage: gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"

3. gray, grey, organization, organisation

usage: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"

4. gray, saddle horse, riding horse, mount

usage: horse of a light grey or whitish color

5. Gray, Thomas Gray, poet

usage: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)

6. Gray, Robert Gray, navigator

usage: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

7. Gray, Asa Gray, botanist, phytologist, plant scientist

usage: United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

Verb

1. gray, grey, color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in

usage: make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky"

2. gray, grey, discolor, discolour, colour, color

usage: turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"

Adjective

1. gray, grey, grayish, greyish, achromatic (vs. chromatic)

usage: an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"

2. gray, grey, gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired, old (vs. young)

usage: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"

3. dull, gray, grey, leaden, cloudy (vs. clear)

usage: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"

4. gray, grey, southern (vs. northern)

usage: used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"

5. gray, grey, intermediate (vs. first) (vs. last)

usage: intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"