Definition/Meaning of gray
- English - Adjective: gray (comparative grayer or more gray, superlative grayest or most gray) Of a color between black and white , having neutral hue and intermediate brightness . (figuratively, sometimes) Dreary , gloomy , cloudy . 1980, Daniel C. Gerould, Stanisław I. Witkiewicz, The Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents: the era of gray , boring banality and stagnation 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest…
- English - Verb: gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed) (ergative) To turn gray. My hair is beginning to gray . (slang) To turn progressively older , alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) the graying of America 2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares…
- English - Noun: gray (plural grays) An achromatic colour between black and white . A gray dye or pigment. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of gray pigment. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse , badger , or salmon . A gray wolf 1939, Arthur Hawthorne Carhart, quoting Bill Caywood, “World Champion Wolfer”, in Outdoor Life, volume 84, number 3: Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought…
- English - Alternative forms: grey ( used in the UK and the Commonwealth and also in the US )
- English - Anagrams: Gary Yarg