gray

UK /ɡɹeɪ/ US /ɡɹeɪ/
noun 6adj 5name 5verb 3

Definitions

adj

1

Of a colour between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

2

Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.

the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation

3

Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.

4

Gray-haired.

5

Old.

Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]

In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places.

verb

1

To turn gray.

My hair is beginning to gray.

2

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

It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.

3

To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

noun

1

An achromatic colour between black and white.

2

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

3

A gray wolf

Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.

4

A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.

5

Synonym of grey alien.

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