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gainsboro

gainsboro noun: a neutral light grey colour.

Noun

gainsboro (uncountable)

  1. A neutral light grey colour.
    • By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information.2005 May 21, David Park, “Re: GridLines issue”, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica (Usenet)
    • When the temperature reached to^([sic]) about 40 °C, the color of characters began to change, and it changed completely from black to gainsboro when the temperature rose to about 50 °C. As the[…]film cooled down to the room temperature, the color returned to black.2017, Guoliang Wang et al., “AgNW/Chinese Xuan paper film heaters for electro-thermochromic paper display”, in Materials Research Express, volume 4, number 11

Adjective

gainsboro (not comparable)

  1. Of a neutral light grey colour.

gainsboro meaning in Tamil

gainsboro in Tamil

இளநீலச் சாம்பல்

Origin of gainsboro

A color named "gainsboro" was added to the X11 color chart by Paul Raveling in 1989. Raveling explained that he introduced a number of "light and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples", of which gainsboro appears to be one.

Questions about gainsboro

What does gainsboro mean?
Gainsboro means a neutral light grey colour.
What is gainsboro in Tamil?
Gainsboro in Tamil is இளநீலச் சாம்பல். See Gainsboro meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gainsboro?
Gainsboro can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near gainsboro in the dictionary

  1. gainsayest
  2. gainsayeth
  3. gainsaying
  4. gainsayings
  5. gainsays
  6. gainsboro
  7. Gainsborough
  8. Gainsborough chair
  9. Gainsborough hat
  10. Gainsborough hats
  11. Gainsboroughs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gainsboro (page history and authors); gainsboro (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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