gray
Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
Adjective 4 meanings
Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.
Gray-haired.
“I have already gone gray and lost my looks.”
Verb 2 meanings
To turn gray.
“My hair is beginning to gray.”
To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
Noun 4 meanings
An achromatic colour between black and white.
A gray dye or pigment.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of gray pigment.
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
Etymology
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey).
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GRAY at a glance
GRAY has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (G 2 + R 1 + A 1 + Y 4) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,238 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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