Top synonyms for “gray”: asa gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey, grey, grey, and 17 more below.
Definitions
- (noun)horse of a light gray or whitish color
- (noun)clothing that is a grey color“he was dressed in grey”
- (noun)a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
- (noun)any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey“the Confederate army was a vast grey”
- (noun)United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
- (noun)American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- (noun)English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
- (noun)English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
- (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
- (verb)turn grey“Her hair began to grey”
- (verb)make grey“The painter decided to grey the sky”
- (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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