Synonyms for gray
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1. gray

   That is termed old which has existed long, or which existed long ago. Ancient, from the Latin, through the French, is the more stately, old, from the Saxon, the more familiar word. Familiarity, on one side, is near to contempt; thus we say, an old coat, an old hat. On the other hand, familiarity is akin to tenderness, and thus old is a word of endearment; as, "the old homestead," the "old oaken bucket." "Tell me the old, old story!" has been sung feelingly by millions; "tell me that ancient story" would remove it out of all touch of human sympathy. Olden is a statelier form of old, and is applied almost exclusively to time, not to places, buildings, persons, etc. As regards periods of time, the familiar are also the near; thus, the old times are not too far away for familiar thought and reference; the olden times are more remote, ancient times still further removed. Gray, hoary, and moldering refer to outward and visible tokens of age. Aged applies chiefly to long-extended human life. Decrepit, gray, and hoary refer to the effects of age on the body exclusively; senile upon the mind also; as, a decrepit frame, senile garrulousness. One may be aged and neither decrepit nor senile. Elderly is applied to those who have passed middle life, but scarcely reached old age. Remote (Latin re, back or away, and moveo, move), primarily refers to space, but is extended to that which is far off in time; as, at some remote period. Venerable expresses the involuntary reverence that we yield to the majestic and long-enduring, whether in the material world or in human life and character. Compare ANTIQUE; OBSOLETE; PRIMEVAL.

   Compare synonyms for NEW; YOUTHFUL.

   Synonyms:
   aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, decrepit, elderly, hoary, immemorial, old, olden, patriarchal, remote, senile, time-honored, time-worn, venerable

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1. gray, grayness, grey, greynessnoun

   a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

   Synonyms:
   grey, grayness, greyness

   Antonyms:
   terminal, chromatic, immature, northern, young

2. grey, graynoun

   clothing that is a grey color

   "he was dressed in grey"

   Synonyms:
   grey, greyness, grayness

   Antonyms:
   young, chromatic, terminal, northern, immature

3. grey, graynoun

   any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

   "the Confederate army was a vast grey"

   Synonyms:
   grey, greyness, grayness

   Antonyms:
   immature, chromatic, young, northern, terminal

4. grey, graynoun

   horse of a light gray or whitish color

   Synonyms:
   grey, greyness, grayness

   Antonyms:
   terminal, northern, young, chromatic, immature

5. gray, Gynoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   grey, grayness, greyness

   Antonyms:
   terminal, chromatic, immature, northern, young

6. Gray, Louis Harold Graynoun

   English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

   Synonyms:
   grey, grayness, greyness

   Antonyms:
   chromatic, immature, terminal, young, northern

7. Gray, Thomas Graynoun

   English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

   Synonyms:
   grey, grayness, greyness

   Antonyms:
   chromatic, young, terminal, immature, northern

8. Gray, Robert Graynoun

   American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

   Synonyms:
   grey, grayness, greyness

   Antonyms:
   northern, young, immature, chromatic, terminal

9. Gray, Asa Grayadjective

   United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

   Synonyms:
   grey, grayness, greyness

   Antonyms:
   immature, terminal, northern, chromatic, young

10. grey, gray, greyish, grayishadjective

    of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

    "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"

    Synonyms:
    grayish, hoar, greyish, hoary, grey-headed, white-haired, gray-headed, grey, grizzly, gray-haired, grey-haired

    Antonyms:
    young, immature, northern, terminal, chromatic

11. grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-hairedadjective

    showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

    "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"

    Synonyms:
    rusty, grizzly, grayish, grey, gray-headed, white-haired, grey-headed, hoar, blue-eyed(a), hoary, canescent, grey-haired, fair-haired(a), gray-haired, white-haired(a), greyish

    Antonyms:
    terminal, immature, chromatic, northern, young

12. grey, grayadjective

    used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)

    "a stalwart grey figure"

    Synonyms:
    grayish, hoar, greyish, hoary, grey-headed, white-haired, gray-headed, grey, grizzly, gray-haired, grey-haired

    Antonyms:
    immature, northern, terminal, young, chromatic

13. grey, grayverb

    intermediate in character or position

    "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

    Synonyms:
    grayish, hoar, greyish, hoary, grey-headed, white-haired, gray-headed, grey, grizzly, gray-haired, grey-haired

    Antonyms:
    immature, terminal, young, chromatic, northern

14. grey, grayverb

    make grey

    "The painter decided to grey the sky"

    Synonyms:
    grey

    Antonyms:
    northern, immature, chromatic, young, terminal

15. grey, grayverb

    turn grey

    "Her hair began to grey"

    Synonyms:
    grey

    Antonyms:
    immature, young, northern, terminal, chromatic

Matched Categories

1. • Achromatic Color
   • Clothing
   • Color
   • Discolor
   • Navigator
   • Organization
   • Poet
   • Radioactivity Unit
   • Radiobiologist
   • Saddle Horse

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grayadjective

   Synonyms:
   hoary, black and white

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1. grayadjective

   Synonyms:
   hoary, slate, drab, maltese, mouse-colored

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1. List of paraphrases for "gray":

   grey, grise, gris, couleuvre, jack, greys, graem, snake

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1. List of known nicknames for "Gray":

   DJ Gray, Jernej Graj

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gray

   Synonyms:
   Gy

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1. William Schaffner:

   Particularly if you get into the gray-haired group —that group has all seen measles, they know about it and respect it and even, in a sense, fear it.

2. Police Commissioner Anthony Batts:

   A mother has lost her son, freddie Gray passed. My greatest hope and wish and desire is that any time we have an interaction as a police department or a contact, that everyone goes home safe.

3. Vivian Diller:

   If we know that it is in your genes you will get gray hair at a certain age, no matter what you do, you will say, 'OK, I'll just color it. I'm not going to pluck them out, and I know it doesn't mean I'm old and dying,'.

4. Donna Lisenby:

   The water in the Cape Fear River next to Duke's Sutton plant had twice as much arsenic in it as the toxic gray coal ash slurry spilling straight out of the pipe into the Dan River in 2014.

5. Anya Topiwala:

   The more people drank, the less the volume of their gray matter, brain volume reduces with age and more severely with dementia. Smaller brain volume also predicts worse performance on memory testing.