grey
adjective
[ ɡreɪ ]
• of a colour intermediate between black and white, as of ashes or lead.
• "grey flannel trousers"
Similar:
greyish,
silvery,
silver-grey,
pearl-grey,
pearly,
gunmetal grey,
slate-grey,
smoke-grey,
smoky,
sooty,
white,
silver,
hoary,
ashen,
wan,
pale,
pasty,
pallid,
colourless,
sallow,
leaden,
bloodless,
anaemic,
waxen,
chalky,
sickly,
peaked,
drained,
sapped,
washed-out,
drawn,
deathly,
deathlike,
ghostly,
peaky,
• without interest or character; dull and nondescript.
• "grey, faceless men"
Similar:
characterless,
colourless,
nondescript,
unremarkable,
faceless,
lifeless,
soulless,
passionless,
spiritless,
insipid,
jejune,
flat,
bland,
dry,
stale,
dull,
uninteresting,
unimaginative,
boring,
tedious,
monotonous,
neutral,
anonymous,
wishy-washy,
• (of financial or trading activity) not accounted for in official statistics.
• "the grey economy"
• relating to an ethnically mixed residential area.
• "a grey Cape Town suburb"
grey
noun
• grey colour or pigment.
• "dirty intermediate tones of grey"
• a grey thing or animal, in particular a grey or white horse.
grey
verb
• (especially of hair) become grey with age.
• "he had put on weight and greyed somewhat"
Origin:
Old English grǣg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grauw and German grau .
