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Top synonyms for “gray”: asa gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey, grey, grey, and 17 more below.

Definitions

  1. (noun)horse of a light gray or whitish color
  2. (noun)clothing that is a grey color
    he was dressed in grey
  3. (noun)a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
  4. (noun)any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
    the Confederate army was a vast grey
  5. (noun)United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
  6. (noun)American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
  7. (noun)English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
  8. (noun)English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
  9. (noun)the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad
  10. (verb)turn grey
    Her hair began to grey
  11. (verb)make grey
    The painter decided to grey the sky
  12. (adjective)of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
    the little grey cells

Definitions sourced from Princeton WordNet (BSD license).

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Common synonyms for "gray" include asa gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey. Our thesaurus lists 25 total alternatives drawn from Princeton WordNet. Click any synonym to find its rhymes.

What does "gray" mean?

horse of a light gray or whitish color

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