Synonyms of the word

gray

• adj. (US) Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
• adj. (US) Dreary, gloomy.
• adj. (US) Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
• adj. (US) Relating to older people.
• v. (US) To become gray.
• v. (US) To cause to become gray.
• v. (US, demography, slang) To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic…
• n. (US) An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
• n. (chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged…
• n. (US, two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
• n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed…

achromatic

• adj. (optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
• adj. Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
• adj. (biology) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue.
• adj. (music) Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
• adj. Being achromatic in subject.

botanist

• n. (botany) A person engaged in botany, the scientific study of plants.

clothing

• v. present participle of clothe.
• n. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination…
• n. An act or instance of putting clothes on.
• n. (obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
• n. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation…

cloudy

• adj. Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.
• adj. Not transparent or clear.
• adj. Uncertain; unclear.

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colorize

• v. To add color to.
• v. (photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

colourise

• v. (Britain) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
• v. (Britain, photography, cinematography) Alternative form of colorize (to convert black and white media…

colourize

• v. (Britain) Alternative spelling of colorize and colourise.

discolor

• v. (American) To change or lose color.

discolour

• v. (British spelling, Canadian, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of discolor (US).

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

gray-haired

• adj. Having gray hair.
• adj. (by extension, figuratively) old, wise, experienced.

grayish

• adj. somewhat gray.

grayness

• n. Alternative form of greyness.

grey

• adj. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
• adj. Dreary, gloomy.
• adj. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
• adj. Relating to older people.
• v. To become grey.
• v. To cause to become grey.
• v. (demography, slang) To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
• n. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
• n. (ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

grey-haired

• adj. Having grey hair.
• adj. (by extension, figuratively) old, wise, experienced.

greyish

• adj. Alternative spelling of grayish.

greyness

• n. The state or quality of being grey.

grizzly

• adj. Grey-haired, greyish.
• adj. Misspelling of grisly.
• n. Abbreviation of grizzly bear.
• n. (US, dialect) Abbreviation of grizzly bars. (In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out…

habiliment

• n. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
• n. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

hoar

• n. A white or greyish-white colour.
• n. Hoariness; antiquity.
• adj. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
• adj. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
• adj. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.

hoary

• adj. White or gray with age.
• adj. (zoology) Of a pale silvery gray.
• adj. (botany) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
• adj. (obsolete) Remote in time past.
• adj. (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
• adj. Old or old-fashioned.

intermediate

• adj. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
• n. Anything in an intermediate position.
• n. An intermediary.
• n. (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
• v. (intransitive) to mediate, to be an intermediate.
• v. (transitive) to arrange, in the manner of a broker.

leaden

• adj. (dated) Made of lead.
• adj. Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
• adj. Dull; darkened with overcast.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become dull or overcast.

mount

• n. A mountain.
• n. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences…
• n. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
• n. (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
• n. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse.
• n. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
• v. (heading, physical) To move upwards.
• v. (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
• v. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
• v. (transitive) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
• v. (transitive) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
• v. (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).

navigator

• n. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member…
• n. A sea explorer.
• n. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
• n. (obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.

old

• adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
• adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
• adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
• adj. (heading) Of an earlier time.
• adj. Tiresome.
• adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
• adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old,…
• adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
• n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

organisation

• n. British spelling standard spelling of organization.

organization

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
• n. (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
• n. (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
• n. (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
• n. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

phytologist

• n. One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.

poet

• n. A person who writes poems.

southern

• adj. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
• adj. Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.
• adj. Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.

vesture

• n. A covering of or like clothing.
• v. (archaic) To clothe.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.

wearable

• adj. Able to be worn.
• n. Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.
• n. (computing) Clipping of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).

white-haired

• adj. Having white hair, especially from ageing.