gray

About 26.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
2. adjective Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
3. adjective Indistinct, disputed or ambiguous, especially in respect of moral acceptability, legality, etc.

   a gray area; a morally gray politician

4. adjective Gray-haired.

   I have already gone gray and lost my looks.

5. adjective Old.
6. adjective Relating to older people.

   the gray dollar

7. verb To turn gray.

   My hair is beginning to gray.

8. verb 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

Similar words

greyness greyish grey-headed gray-haired grayish grey gray-headed grey-haired hoar hoary

Often followed by

and eyes matter hair in to or of with

Word family

Asa Gray Gray Grays Thomas Gray grayed grayer grayest graying grayly grayness