gray
gray is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
- superlative. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
- superlative. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
- noun. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
- noun. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
- noun. horse of a light gray or whitish color
- noun. clothing that is a grey color
"he was dressed in grey"
- noun. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
- noun. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
"the Confederate army was a vast grey"
- noun. United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
- noun. American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- noun. English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
- noun. English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
- noun. 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
- verb. turn grey
"Her hair began to grey"
- verb. make grey
"The painter decided to grey the sky"
- adjective. of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
"the little grey cells"
"gray flannel suit"
- adjective. intermediate in character or position
"a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
- adjective. used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
"a stalwart grey figure"
- adjective. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair-Coleridge
"whose beard with age is hoar"
"nodded his hoary head"
Synonyms
grey, grayness, greyness, gy, grayish, greyish, grizzly, hoar, hoary
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gray:
Common word forms
grays, grayed, grayer, grayly, grayest, graying, grayness
Words from these letters
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