variants:
or less commonly grey
Definition of gray
(Entry 1 of 4)
1a
: of the color gray
b
: tending toward gray
blue-gray eyes
c
: dull in color
2
: having the hair gray : hoary
3
: clothed in gray
b
: prosaically ordinary : dull, uninteresting
the boring, gray dullness of government— P. J. O'Rourke
5
: having an intermediate and often vaguely defined position, condition, or character
an ethically gray area
gray
noun (1)
variants:
or less commonly grey
Definition of gray (Entry 2 of 4)
1
: any of a series of neutral colors ranging between black and white
2
: something (such as an animal, garment, cloth, or spot) of a gray color
3a
: a soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War
b
often capitalized
: the Confederate army
gray
verb
variants:
or less commonly grey
grayed also greyed; graying also greying; grays also greys
Definition of gray (Entry 3 of 4)
1
: to become gray
2
: age
also
: to contain an increasing percentage of older people
The town's population has grayed over the last two decades.
: to make gray
gray
noun (2)Definition of gray (Entry 4 of 4)
: the mks unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of one joule per kilogram of irradiated material
—abbreviation Gy
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