Grey

/ɡɹeɪ/

adjective

  1. Having a color.

    Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.

  2. Having a particular color or kind of color.

    The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.

  3. Having prominent colors; colorful.

    The singer wore a colored shirt.

noun

  1. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

  2. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

  3. An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

verb

  1. To become grey.

    My hair is beginning to grey.

  2. To cause to become grey.

  3. To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

    the greying of Europe

adjective

  1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.

  2. Dreary, gloomy.

  3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.

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