Thesaurus: gray

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1. superl. 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.
2. superl. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
3. superl. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
4. n. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
5. n. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
6. n. English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
7. adj. of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
8. adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
9. adj. used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
10. adj. intermediate in character or position
11. n. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
12. n. clothing that is a grey color