Grey

Adjective

 * 1) Having a grey colour, as the ash of an ember.
 * 2) dreary, gloomy
 * 3) Having an indistinct or disputed quality

Verb

 * 1) To become grey or cause to become grey.
 * My hair is beginning to grey.

Noun

 * 1) An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
 * 2)  an extraterrestrial creature with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
 * 1)  an extraterrestrial creature with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

Thesaurus
Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, anemic, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, black, bleak, bled white, bloodless, boring, buckskin, cadaverous, calico pony, canescence, canescent, cheerless, chestnut, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, cloudy, colorless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, depressing, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, drabness, drear, drearisome, dreary, dull, dullness, dun, dusty, elderly, etiolated, experienced, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, foggy, funebrial, funereal, ghastly, glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucousness, gloomy, glum, grave, gray, gray with age, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-haired, gray-headed, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grayishness, grayness, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, haggard, hoar, hoary, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, leadenness, livid, lividity, lividness, lurid, lusterless, mat, mature, mealy, misty, monotonous, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousiness, mousy, muddy, murky, neutral, neutral tint, old, old as Methuselah, overcast, paint, painted pony, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, patriarchal, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, piebald, pinto, repetitive, roan, sad, sallow, same, samely, saturnine, senectuous, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silveriness, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slatiness, slaty, smoke-gray, smokiness, smoky, sober, soberness, solemn, somber, somberness, sombrous, sooty, sorrel, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, sunless, tallow-faced, taupe, tedious, toneless, triste, uncolored, unrelieved, venerable, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wise, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

Alternative forms

 * gray

Etymology
grǣġ:, from *grēwjaz (compare  graw:,  grau:,  grár:), from Pre-Germanic *ĝrēu̯o, from  *ĝher- 'to shine, glow' (compare  ravus: 'grey',  zirjǫ 'to see, glance',  zreti 'to see',  žeriù: 'to shine').

Adjective

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: hirtë
 * Arabic: رمادي, (of hair) أشيب
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chickasaw: shobbokoli
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: gris
 * Georgian: რუხი, ნაცრისფერი
 * German:
 * Greek: (gkrízos)
 * Ancient Greek: πολιός (polios)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: אָפוֹר (afór)
 * Hiligaynon: ,
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian: (all senses except hair color),  (only for hair color)
 * Icelandic:, ,


 * Ido: griza
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: сұр
 * Korean: 회색
 * Latgalian:, ,
 * Latin: cinereus, cinerea, cinereum
 * Latvian: pelēks, pelēka , sirms
 * Lithuanian: pilkas, žilas
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ചാരം (chaaram)
 * Navajo: ,
 * Neapolitan: criscio
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: grisi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ; (of hair)
 * Scottish Gaelic: liath (lighter grey), glas (darker grey)
 * Slovak: sivý
 * Slovene:, , sivo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: abo
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: сірий
 * Vietnamese: (màu) xám, hoa râm (grey-haired)
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: griis


 * Basque:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Irish:


 * Russian:
 * Slovene: siv, siva , sivo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: buồn, buồn bã, rầu, rầu rĩ, âm u (personality, mood); u ám, âm u, ảm đậm (sky, weather)


 * Dutch: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Japanese:


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: i en gråzon
 * Vietnamese: không rõ, lờ mờ

Verb

 * Danish:
 * Dutch: grijzen
 * Finnish: (become),   (cause to become)
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: сереть (serét’); (of hair) седеть (sedét’)
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Usage notes
There happens to be a handy mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: grey is the English spelling, while gray is the American spelling. However, grey is also frequently found in American English.

Derived terms

 * battleship grey, battleship-grey
 * grey area
 * greybeard


 * greyness
 * grey ghost


 * grey matter

Noun

 * Anglosaxon: grǣg
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: gris
 * Chinese: 灰 (huī), 灰色 (huīsè)
 * Czech: šedá
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: γκρι (gri), σταχτί (stakhtí) , φαιό (feó)
 * Hebrew: אָפוֹר (afór)
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: liath, (of animals, cloth, eyes) glas


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 灰色 (はいいろ, hai-iro), 鼠色 (ねずみいろ, nezumi-iro)
 * Korean: 회색 (灰色, hoesaek)
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Gro
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: sivá, šedivá
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: abo
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: màu xám


 * French:
 * German: Graue, Grauen ,


 * Spanish:


 * : louet, gris
 * : kelabu, abu-abu
 * : gris
 * : (xākestæri)

Anagrams

 * gyre

Noun
grey (grey-s, )


 * 1) a wretch, a pitiful person
 * Greyið mitt!
 * You poor little thing!
 * Grey Jón..
 * Poor John..