grey
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- pale, ashen, pallid, wan
- dismal, dark, depressing, dim, drab, dreary, dull, gloomy
- characterless, anonymous, colourless, dull

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I. Grey, Lady Jane
(1537–54) a woman who was queen of England for 9 days in 1553, before she was put in prison by Mary I, and later killed

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II. Grey, Zane /zeɪn/
(1875–1934) a US writer of adventure stories about life in the American West in the 19th century. His best-known novel is Riders of the Purple Sage.

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I. grey¹ S2 W2 British English, gray American English /ɡreɪ/ adjective

1. COLOUR having the colour of dark clouds, neither black nor white:
an old lady with grey hair
a grey sky
dark/light grey
dark grey trousers ⇒ battleship grey, iron-grey, ⇒ slate grey at slate¹(3)

2. HAIR having grey hair
go/turn grey
She was a tall thin woman who had gone grey early.

3. FACE looking pale because you are tired, frightened, or ill
grey with
As he listened, his face went grey with shock.

4. BORING boring and unattractive Antonym : colourful:
the grey anonymous men in government offices
visions of a grey and empty world

5. WEATHER if the weather is grey, the sky is full of clouds and the sun is not bright Antonym : bright:
a grey day

6. OF OLD PEOPLE [only before noun] British English connected with old people:
the grey vote

7. grey area used to talk about a situation in which something is not clearly a particular thing, so that people are not sure how to deal with it:
people in the grey area between loyalty and opposition to the government
—greyness noun [uncountable]

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II. grey² British English, gray American English noun
[uncountable and countable] the colour of dark clouds, neither black nor white:
Do you have these skirts in grey?
dull greys and browns

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III. grey³ British English, gray American English verb
[intransitive] if someone greys, their hair becomes grey:
Jim was greying a little at the temples.
a full head of greying hair

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grey
adj.
I. of the colour between black and white
ADV. very The sky looks very grey. I think it's going to rain.
quite, rather, slightly
ADJ. dark | light, pale a light grey suit
silvery, slate
 ⇒ Special page at COLOUR

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grey
II. with grey hair
VERBS be | go, turn He went grey before he was forty.
ADV. very | completely She was completely grey by the age of thirty.

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cloudy with a lot of clouds:
The weather was cold and cloudy.
cloudy skies
grey (also gray American English) grey in colour, because there are dark clouds – used especially in written descriptions:
Mary looked out at the cold grey sky.
overcast dark and completely covered with clouds:
a chilly overcast day
leaden literary a leaden sky is grey and full of dark clouds:
Snow fell from a leaden sky.
gloomy dark and cloudy, in a depressing way:
The gloomy weather shows no sign of improving.
foggy with thick low cloud that is difficult to see through. You use foggy especially about low-lying places:
a foggy day in London in November
misty with light low cloud that is difficult to see through. You use misty especially about places that are next to water or in the mountains:
a cold misty morning
hazy with air that looks cloudy, because there is smoke, dust, or mist in it:
hazy sunshine

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rainy a rainy period of time is one when it rains a lot:
a cold rainy day in October
The weather continued to be rainy.
The rainy season is in July.
wet rainy. Wet and rainy mean the same and are used in the same way:
In Cyprus during the winter, you’ll only have the occasional wet day.
The wet weather is expected to continue.
another wet summer
It's been wet all week.
damp if the air feels damp, there is a lot of moisture in the air and it may be raining slightly:
It was a cold damp day.
a damp November morning
showery raining for short periods:
the cool, bright, showery weather of early April
The weather will be showery, with some sunny intervals.
drizzly raining slightly, with a lot of mist in the air:
The morning was grey and drizzly.
grey British English, gray American English if the sky is grey, there are a lot clouds, and it looks like it will rain:
The next morning, the sky was grey.
Then, as if by magic, the sun burst through what had until then been a rather grey day.

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