grey
grey is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Gray (the correct orthography). 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
- adjective. See Gray (the correct orthography).
- 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. Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
- noun. Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
- noun. United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
- 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
gray, grayness, greyness, grayish, greyish, grizzly, hoar, hoary
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in grey:
Common word forms
greys, greyed, greyer, greyly, greyest, greying, greyness
Words from these letters
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