grey

Từ điển Collocation

grey adj.

1 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

2 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.

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939); Grey, Zane Grey
  • Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554); Grey, Lady Jane Grey
  • Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845); Grey, Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey
  • any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; gray

    the Confederate army was a vast grey

  • a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black; gray, grayness, greyness
  • clothing that is a grey color; gray

    he was dressed in grey

  • horse of a light gray or whitish color; gray

    v.

  • make grey; gray

    The painter decided to grey the sky

  • turn grey; gray

    Her hair began to grey

    adj.

  • of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; gray, greyish, grayish

    the little grey cells

    gray flannel suit

    a man with greyish hair

  • showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired

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

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

    a stalwart grey figure

  • intermediate in character or position; gray

    a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

  • darkened with overcast; dull, gray, leaden

    a dark day

    a dull sky

    a grey rainy afternoon

    grey clouds

    the sky was leaden and thick

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

greyer|greyest
syn.: Charles Grey Grey Lady Jane Grey Second Earl Grey Zane Grey dull gray gray-haired gray-headed grayish grayness grey-haired grey-headed greyish greyness grizzly hoar hoary leaden white-haired