gray

Meanings

Plural: grays

Noun

a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
clothing that is a grey color
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
horse of a light gray or whitish color
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
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
An achromatic colour between black and white.
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
Synonym of grey alien.
A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy

Verb

make grey
turn grey
To become gray.
To cause to become gray.
To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

Adjective Satellite

of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
- "gray flannel suit"
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge
used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
intermediate in character or position

Adj

Of a colour between black and white.
Dreary, gloomy.
Of an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
Gray-haired.
Old.
Relating to older people.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
See also Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár); also Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).

Synonyms

age-old, aged, ambiguous, ancient, antediluvian, Asa Gray, auld, bleak, cheerless, cobwebbed, cobwebby, comfortless, dark, decrepit, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, eld, elder, elderly, eldern, equivocal, forlorn, fuzzy, gayless, generic, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey, grey alien, grey-haired, grey-headed, greyish, greyness, grim, grisescent, grizzly, Gy, hoar, hoary, imperspicuous, imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, ivy-covered, joyless, lack-laughter, long in the tooth, Louis Harold Gray, lugubrious, matured, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moss-covered, moss-grown, no joke, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, old as the hills, old as the Pyramids, olden, older than dirt, older than the hills, older than the Pyramids, on in years, over the hill, preserved, Robert Gray, saturnine, senior, silver-haired, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, superannuated, Thomas Gray, turbid, uncertain, uncheerful, uncheery, unclear, undefinable, undefined, unhappy, unmerry, vague, venerable, white-haired, wintry, woeful, woolly, wooly

Scrabble Score: 8

gray is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
gray is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gray is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

gray is a valid Words With Friends word