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grayware

grayware is the alternative form of greyware.

Meaning of greyware

Noun (1)

greyware (uncountable)

  1. A style of ancient grey pottery painted with geometric patterns.

Noun (2)

greyware (uncountable)

  1. Software that is not outright malicious but is generally undesirable or annoying, such as adware.

Origin of grayware

From gray + -ware.

Questions about grayware

What is grayware the alternative form of?
Grayware is the alternative form of greyware.

Words near grayware in the dictionary

  1. graytails
  2. Graytown
  3. Grayvoron
  4. graywacke
  5. graywackes
  6. grayware
  7. graywater
  8. graywaters
  9. graywether
  10. graywethers
  11. Graz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grayware (page history and authors); greyware (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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