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/ɡrā/
adjective
  1. of a color intermediate between black and white, as of ashes or lead.
    "gray flannel trousers"
    synonyms: grayish, silvery, silver-gray, pearl-gray, pearly, gunmetal gray, slate-gray, smoke-gray, smoky, sooty, white, silver, hoary, ashen, wan, pale, pasty, pallid, colorless, sallow, leaden, bloodless, anemic, waxen, chalky, sickly, peaked, drained, sapped, washed-out, drawn, deathly, deathlike, ghostly, peaky
  2. without interest or character; dull and nondescript.
    "gray, faceless men"
    synonyms: characterless, colorless, nondescript, unremarkable, faceless, lifeless, soulless, passionless, spiritless, insipid, jejune, flat, bland, dry, stale, dull, uninteresting, unimaginative, boring, tedious, monotonous, neutral, anonymous, wishy-washy
  3. (of financial or trading activity) not accounted for in official statistics.
    "the gray economy"
    synonyms: unofficial, informal, irregular, back-door

noun
  1. gray color or pigment.
    "dirty intermediate tones of gray"
  2. a gray thing or animal, in particular a gray or white horse.

verb
(especially of hair) become gray with age.
"he had put on weight and grayed somewhat"

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