grayer

Adjective

gray (comparative grayer or more gray, superlative grayest or most gray)

1. (US) Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

   Synonyms:

   grayish, grizzly, gray / grey, grayey / greyey, grayish / greyish, griseous, grisescent, hoary

2. (US, figuratively, sometimes) Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
   • the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation1980, Daniel C. Gerould, Stanisław I. Witkiewicz, The Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents

   Synonyms:

   bleak, sombre, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate

3. (US) Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.

   Synonyms:

   fuzzy, wooly, ambiguous, equivocal, generic, imperspicuous, imprecise, indeterminate, indefinite, indistinct

4. (US) Gray-haired.
   • I have already gone gray and lost my looks.

   Synonyms:

   grizzly, silver-haired, white-haired, gray / grey, gray-headed / grey-headed, grey-haired / gray-haired, grisly, grizzled, hoary, mouldy

5. (US) Old.
   • Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace
     More time than might make grey the infant world,
     Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   cobwebbed, hoary, ancient, aged, age-old, antediluvian, auld, cobwebby, decrepit, eld

6. (US) Relating to older people.
   • the gray dollar

   Synonyms:

   elder, geriatric, elderly, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah, on in years

See all 27 meanings of gray