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gray

adj · name · noun · verb · 40 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • grā
  • /ɡɹeɪ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: grey
  • homophone: (one pronunciation) greige
  • rhymes with -eɪ
  • Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: gray
  • CMU ARPABET: G R EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, figuratively, sometimes

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bleak, sombre, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fuzzy, wooly, ambiguous, equivocal, generic, gray, imperspicuous, imprecise, indeterminate, indefinite, indistinct, murky, nebulous, turbid, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undefinable, vague, woolly

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Gray-haired.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Examples

  • I have already gone gray and lost my looks.

Meaning relationships

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

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Old.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cobwebbed, hoary, ancient, aged, age-old, antediluvian, auld, cobwebby, decrepit, eld, eldern, gamol, gray, moss-grown, old, old as the hills, old as the Pyramids, olden, older than dirt, older than the hills, older than the Pyramids, venerable, wintry

Antonyms: none provided

6

adj

Meaning 6

Relating to older people.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Examples

  • the gray dollar
  • February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: elder, geriatric, elderly, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah, on in years, over the hill, senior, superannuated, ivy-covered, preserved, wintry

Antonyms: none provided

7

name

Meaning 7

A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

name

Meaning 8

A male given name.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

name

Meaning 9

A number of places in the United States:

A city, the county seat of Jones County, Georgia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

name

Meaning 10

A number of places in the United States:

A minor city in Audubon County, Iowa.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

name

Meaning 11

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

name

Meaning 12

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

name

Meaning 13

A number of places in the United States:

A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

name

Meaning 14

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Washington County, Tennessee.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

name

Meaning 15

A rural locality in north-east Tasmania, Australia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

An achromatic colour between black and white.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

noun

Meaning 18

A gray wolf

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

noun

Meaning 19

A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

noun

Meaning 20

Synonym of grey alien.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences, ufology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey alien

Antonyms: none provided

21

noun

Meaning 21

A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Qualifier: two-up

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

noun

Meaning 22

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

23

verb

Meaning 23

To turn gray.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, ergative

Examples

  • My hair is beginning to gray.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

24

verb

Meaning 24

To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, slang

Topics: demographics, demography

Examples

  • the graying of America

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

25

verb

Meaning 25

To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, transitive

Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

26

adjective satellite

Meaning 26

of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the little grey cells
  • gray flannel suit
  • a man with greyish hair

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey, greyish, grayish

Antonyms: none provided

27

adjective satellite

Meaning 27

intermediate in character or position

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey

Antonyms: none provided

28

adjective satellite

Meaning 28

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a stalwart grey figure

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey

Antonyms: none provided

29

adjective satellite

Meaning 29

showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair-Coleridge

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • whose beard with age is hoar
  • nodded his hoary head

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired

Antonyms: none provided

30

noun

Meaning 30

horse of a light gray or whitish color

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: saddle horse, riding horse, mount

31

noun

Meaning 31

clothing that is a grey color

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he was dressed in grey

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment

32

noun

Meaning 32

a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grayness, grey, greyness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: achromatic color, achromatic colour

Narrower terms: ash grey, ash gray, silver, silver grey, silver gray, charcoal, charcoal grey, charcoal gray, oxford grey, oxford gray, dapple-grey, dapple-gray, dappled-grey, dappled-gray, iron-grey, iron-gray, tattletale grey, tattletale gray, iron blue, steel grey, steel gray, Davy's grey, Davy's gray

33

noun

Meaning 33

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the Confederate army was a vast grey

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: organization, organisation

Narrower terms: Confederate Army, Army of the Confederacy

34

noun

Meaning 34

United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Asa Gray

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: botanist, phytologist, plant scientist

35

noun

Meaning 35

American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Robert Gray

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: navigator

36

noun

Meaning 36

English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Thomas Gray

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: poet

37

noun

Meaning 37

English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Louis Harold Gray

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: radiobiologist

38

noun

Meaning 38

the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Gy

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: radioactivity unit

39

verb

Meaning 39

turn grey

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Her hair began to grey

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: discolor, discolour, colour, color

40

verb

Meaning 40

make grey

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The painter decided to grey the sky

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in

History

Etymology

From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhreh1- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).

* As an English, Irish, Scottish, and Norman surname, from the placename Graye-sur-Mer in Calvados, from Late Latin Graecus (“Greek”). * Also as an English surname, from the adjective gray. Compare the Irish calque McGreevy. * As a French surname, from Gray, Haute-Saône in France, from the personal name Gradus, a Gallo-Roman/Celtic pronunciation of Gratus, from the name Gratius.

Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965).

Across languages

Translations

435 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: grys — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Akan: nso — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Albanian: hirtë — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Gheg Albanian: hini — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Southern Altai: бос (bos) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Southern Altai: чал (čal) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Arabic: رَمَادِيّ (ramādiyy) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Arabic: أَشْيَب (ʔašyab) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Arabic: أَشْهَب (ʔašhab) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Arabic: رَصَاصِيّ (raṣāṣiyy) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Arabic: رَمادي (ramādi) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Arabic: رمادي (rmādi) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Arabic: رمادي (ramādi) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Arabic: سكني (sakani) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Aragonese: griso — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Armenian: գորշ (gorš) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Armenian: մոխրագույն (moxraguyn) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Asturian: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Aymara: ch'ixi — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Azerbaijani: بوْز (bōz) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Azerbaijani: بوز (bouz) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Azerbaijani: boz — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Azerbaijani: çal — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Bashkir: һоро (horo) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Basque: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Belarusian: шэ́ры (šéry) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Bengali: ধূসর (dhuśor) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Breton: louet — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Brunei Bisaya: kalabu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Bulgarian: сив (siv) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Burmese: မီးခိုးရောင် (mi:hkui:raung) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Catalan: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Cebuano: abohon — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Chechen: мокха (moqa) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Chechen: сира (sira) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎸ ᏌᎪᏂᎨ (usgolv sagonige) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Chickasaw: shobbokoli — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Chinese Cantonese: 灰色 (fui1 sik1) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Chinese Mandarin: 灰色 (huīsè) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Min Nan Chinese: 殕色 (phú-sek) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Min Nan Chinese: 灰仔色 (hoe-á-sek) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Min Nan Chinese: 灰色 (hoe-sek) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Wu Chinese: 灰色 (hue-seh) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Chuvash: сӑрӑ (sără) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Cornish: loos — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Montagnais: kauapinuat — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Czech: šedý — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Danish: grå — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Dutch: grijs — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Esperanto: griza — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Estonian: hall — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Evenki: игдяма (igʒama) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Faroese: gráur — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Finnish: harmaa — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • French: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • North Frisian: grä — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • North Frisian: grai — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • North Frisian: gra — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • North Frisian: gre — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Old Frisian: grē — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • West-Frisian: griis — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • West-Frisian: grau — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Galician: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Galician: cincento — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Galician: borrallento — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Galician: aborrallado — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Galician: chumbo — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Georgian: რუხი (ruxi) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Georgian: ნაცრისფერი (nacrisperi) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • German: grau — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • German: graau — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • German: graaw — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Old High German: grāo — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Greek: γκρίζος (gkrízos) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Greek: φαιός (faiós) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Ancient Greek: κιλλός (killós) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Ancient Greek: πολιός (poliós) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Ancient Greek: φαιός (phaiós) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Greenlandic: qasertoq — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Gujarati: નિસ્તેજ (nistej) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Haitian Creole: gri — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Halkomelem: tsxwíkw' — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Halkomelem: tshwikw' — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Hebrew: אָפוֹר (afór) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Hiligaynon: abóhon — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Hiligaynon: baúg — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Hindi: धूसर (dhūsar) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Hopi: maasi — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Hungarian: szürke — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Hungarian: ősz — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Icelandic: grár — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Ido: griza — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Igbo: isi awọ — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Indonesian: abu-abu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Ingrian: harmaa — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Irish: liath — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Irish: glas — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Italian: grigio — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Japanese: 灰色 (hai-iro) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Japanese: 鼠色 (nezumi-iro) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kaitag: гъурша (ɣurša) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kannada: ಬೂದು (būdu) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kazakh: сұр (sūr) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kazakh: шал (şal) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Khmer: ប្រផេះ (prɑɑpheh) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Khoekhoe: ǀhāi — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kongo: ya putulu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Korean: 회색(灰色)의 (hoesaeg-ui) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Korean: 잿빛의 (jaetbich-ui) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Northern Kurdish: gewr — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Northern Kurdish: bor — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kwak'wala: igistu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kyrgyz: сур (sur) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kyrgyz: боз (boz) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Kyrgyz: көк (kök) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Lao: ສີສວາດ (sīs wāt) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Latgalian: palāks — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Latgalian: sierms — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Latin: rāvus — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Latin: pullus — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Latin: cinereus — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Latin: canus — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Latvian: pelēks — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Latvian: sirms — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Ligurian: grixo — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Lingala: mbwé — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Lithuanian: pilkas — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Lithuanian: žilas — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Lombard: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Lombard: grisa — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Louisiana Creole: gri — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Low German: graag — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Low German: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Macedonian: сив (siv) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Macedonian: сур (sur) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Malagasy: volom-batolalaka — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Malay: abu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Malay: kelabu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Brunei Malay: kalabu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Malayalam: ചാരം (cāraṁ) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Maltese: griż — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Manchu: ᠪᠣᡵᠣ (boro) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Māori: pūhinahina — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Māori: pūhina — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Māori: kiwikiwi — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Māori: māhinahina — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Māori: pūmā — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Māori: hinauri — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Marathi: करडा (karḍā) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Marathi: करडी (karḍī) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Marathi: करडे (karḍe) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Marathi: राखाडी (rākhāḍī) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Eastern Mari: лудо (ludo) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Mauritian Creole: gri — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Mirandese: cinza — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Mirandese: cinzento — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Mongolian: саарал (saaral) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Navajo: łibá — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Navajo: dinilbá — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Neapolitan: criscio — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Nepali: फुस्रो (phusro) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Nepali: कैलो (kailo) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Nootka: ƛintmisp̕iqak — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Norman: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Norwegian Bokmål: grå — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Occitan: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Old English: græg — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Old English: hasu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Old English: fealu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Old Saxon: grāo — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Oromo: daalacha — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Pashto: خړ (xëṛ) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Iranian Persian: خاکِسْتَری (xâkestari) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Iranian Persian: توسی (tusi) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Plautdietsch: greiw — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Polish: szary — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Polish: siwy — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Portuguese: cinza — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Portuguese: cinzento — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Portuguese: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Quechua: uqi — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Rapa Nui: 'ehu 'ehu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Réunion Creole French: gri — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Romanian: brumăriu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Romanian: cenușiu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Romanian: sur — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Romansh: grisch — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Romansh: greisch — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Russian: се́рый (séryj) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Russian: седо́й (sedój) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Russian: си́вый (sívyj) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Saanich: NEW̱IQ — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Northern Sami: ránis — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Sanskrit: पलित (palita) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Scottish Gaelic: liath — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Scottish Gaelic: glas — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Serbo-Croatian: сив — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Serbo-Croatian: сива — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Serbo-Croatian: siv — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Serbo-Croatian: siva — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Shona: gireyi — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Sicilian: grisu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Sicilian: griciu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Sicilian: griggiu (Italianized) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Sinhalese: අළු (aḷu) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Slovak: sivý — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Slovene: siv — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Somali: bey — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Lower Sorbian: šery — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Upper Sorbian: šěry — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Spanish: gris — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Sundanese: kulawu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Sundanese: hawuk — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Sundanese: dawuk — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Swahili: kijivu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Swazi: mphunga — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Swedish: grå — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tabasaran: буз (buz) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tagalog: abuhin — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tagalog: kulay-abo — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tajik: хокистарӣ (xokistari) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tajik: хокистариранг (xokistarirang) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tamil: சாம்பல் நிறம் (cāmpal niṟam) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tat: bur — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tatar: соры (sorı) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Telugu: నెరిసిన (nerisina) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Thai: เทา (tao) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Turkish: gri — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Turkish: boz — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Turkish: kır — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Ottoman Turkish: قیر (kır) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Turkmen: çal — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tutong: kalabu — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Tuvan: куу (kuu) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Ukrainian: сі́рий (síryj) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Urdu: سُرْمَئی (surmaī) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Urdu: دُھوسَر (dhūsar) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Urdu: خاکِسْتَری (xākistarī) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Uzbek: kulrang — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Uzbek: kul — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Uzbek: sur — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Venetan: grìso — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Vietnamese: (màu) xám — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Vietnamese: hoa râm — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Volapük: gedik — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Welsh: llwyd — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Yiddish: גרוי (groy) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Yiddish: גראָ (gro) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Yoruba: àwo eléerú — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Zazaki: bor (diq) — of a color somewhere between white and black, like cinders
  • Asturian: gris — dreary, gloomy
  • Basque: gris — dreary, gloomy
  • Dutch: grijs — dreary, gloomy
  • Dutch: grauw — dreary, gloomy
  • Estonian: hall — dreary, gloomy
  • Finnish: ankea — dreary, gloomy
  • Finnish: harmaa — dreary, gloomy
  • Finnish: synkkä — dreary, gloomy
  • French: gris — dreary, gloomy
  • German: grau — dreary, gloomy
  • Hebrew: אַפְרוּרִי (afruri) — dreary, gloomy
  • Hiligaynon: baúg — dreary, gloomy
  • Hungarian: borongós — dreary, gloomy
  • Hungarian: gyászos — dreary, gloomy
  • Irish: glas — dreary, gloomy
  • Norman: gris — dreary, gloomy
  • Portuguese: sombrio — dreary, gloomy
  • Russian: се́рый (séryj) — dreary, gloomy
  • Slovene: siv — dreary, gloomy
  • Spanish: gris — dreary, gloomy
  • Swedish: grå — dreary, gloomy
  • Swedish: trist — dreary, gloomy
  • Swedish: tråkig — dreary, gloomy
  • Swedish: dyster — dreary, gloomy
  • Vietnamese: buồn — dreary, gloomy
  • Vietnamese: buồn bã — dreary, gloomy
  • Vietnamese: rầu — dreary, gloomy
  • Vietnamese: rầu rĩ — dreary, gloomy
  • Vietnamese: âm u — dreary, gloomy
  • Vietnamese: u ám — dreary, gloomy
  • Vietnamese: ảm đậm — dreary, gloomy
  • Dutch: grijs — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • Estonian: hall — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • French: gris — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • Japanese: 曖昧な (aimai na) — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • Japanese: あやふや (ayafuya) — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • Japanese: ぼんやり (bonyari) — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • Norman: gris — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • Spanish: gris — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • Swedish: i en gråzon — indistinct, disputed, uncertain
  • Afrikaans: grys — colour
  • Albanian: hi — colour
  • Southern Altai: бос (bos) — colour
  • Armenian: մոխրագույն (moxraguyn) — colour
  • Asturian: gris — colour
  • Basque: gris — colour
  • Bulgarian: сив (siv) — colour
  • Catalan: gris — colour
  • Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎸ ᏌᎪᏂᎨ (usgolv sagonige) — colour
  • Chichewa: imvi — colour
  • Chinese Mandarin: 灰 (huī) — colour
  • Chinese Mandarin: 灰色 (huīsè) — colour
  • Czech: šedá — colour
  • Danish: grå — colour
  • Dutch: grijs — colour
  • Esperanto: grizo — colour
  • Estonian: hall — colour
  • Faroese: gráur — colour
  • Faroese: grátt — colour
  • Finnish: harmaa — colour
  • French: gris — colour
  • Galician: gris — colour
  • Georgian: ნაცრისფერი (nacrisperi) — colour
  • Georgian: რუხი (ruxi) — colour
  • German: Grau — colour
  • Greek: γκρι (gkri) — colour
  • Greek: σταχτί (stachtí) — colour
  • Greek: φαιό (faió) — colour
  • Gujarati: ગ્રે (gre) — colour
  • Hebrew: אָפוֹר (afór) — colour
  • Hungarian: szürke — colour
  • Icelandic: grár — colour
  • Indonesian: abu-abu — colour
  • Irish: liath — colour
  • Irish: glas — colour
  • Italian: grigio — colour
  • Japanese: 灰色 (hai-iro) — colour
  • Japanese: 鼠色 (nezumi-iro) — colour
  • Khmer: ពណ៌ប្រផេះ (poa prɑpheh) — colour
  • Korean: 회색 (hoesaek) — colour
  • Latvian: pelēks — colour
  • Ligurian: grixo — colour
  • Lithuanian: pilka — colour
  • Louisiana Creole: gri — colour
  • Luxembourgish: Gro — colour
  • Malay: abu — colour
  • Malay: kelabu — colour
  • Malay: kelabu arang — colour
  • Mirandese: cinza — colour
  • Mirandese: cinzento — colour
  • Mongolian: саарал (saaral) — colour
  • Norwegian: grå — colour
  • Occitan: gris — colour
  • Pashto: خړپړ (ḵaṛ paṛ) — colour
  • Pashto: خړ (ḵaṛ) — colour
  • Persian: خاکِستَری (xâkestari) — colour
  • Polish: szarość — colour
  • Polish: szary — colour
  • Portuguese: cinza — colour
  • Portuguese: gris — colour
  • Réunion Creole French: gri — colour
  • Romanian: gri — colour
  • Romansh: grisch — colour
  • Russian: се́рый (séryj) — colour
  • Northern Sami: ránis — colour
  • Sinhalese: අළු (aḷu) — colour
  • Slovak: sivá — colour
  • Slovak: šedivá — colour
  • Slovene: siva — colour
  • Spanish: gris — colour
  • Sundanese: kulawu — colour
  • Swedish: grå — colour
  • Tagalog: abo — colour
  • Tajik: хокистарӣ (xokistari) — colour
  • Telugu: బూడిద (būḍida) — colour
  • Thai: สีเทา (sǐi-tao) — colour
  • Turkish: gri — colour
  • Turkish: boz — colour
  • Vietnamese: màu xám — colour
  • Welsh: llwyd — colour
  • Yiddish: גרוי (groy) — colour
  • French: Gris — extraterrestrial being
  • German: Graue — extraterrestrial being
  • German: Grauen — extraterrestrial being
  • Polish: Szarak — extraterrestrial being
  • Portuguese: grey — extraterrestrial being
  • Portuguese: gray — extraterrestrial being
  • Spanish: grises — extraterrestrial being
  • Czech: gray — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • French: gray — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • German: Gray — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Greek: γκρέυ (gkréy) — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Hungarian: gray — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Indonesian: gray — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Malay: gray — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Polish: grej — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Portuguese: gray — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Russian: грей (grej) — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Swedish: gray — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Thai: เกรย์ (gree) — SI unit of absorbed radiation
  • Asturian: canecer — to become gray
  • Asturian: encanecer — to become gray
  • Azerbaijani: bozarmaq — to become gray
  • Bulgarian: посивявам (posivjavam) — to become gray
  • Catalan: agrisar — to become gray
  • Danish: gråne — to become gray
  • Dutch: grijzen — to become gray
  • Estonian: halliks minema — to become gray
  • Finnish: harmaantua — to become gray
  • Finnish: harmentua — to become gray
  • French: griser — to become gray
  • German: ergrauen — to become gray
  • German: grau werden — to become gray
  • Greek: γκριζάρω (gkrizáro) — to become gray
  • Hungarian: szürkül — to become gray
  • Hungarian: elszürkül — to become gray
  • Hungarian: őszül — to become gray
  • Ido: grizeskar — to become gray
  • Irish: liath — to become gray
  • Italian: ingrigire — to become gray
  • Latin: cānēscō — to become gray
  • Navajo: yiibááh — to become gray
  • Norman: grisi — to become gray
  • Polish: siwieć — to become gray
  • Portuguese: acinzentar — to become gray
  • Russian: сере́ть (serétʹ) — to become gray
  • Russian: седе́ть (sedétʹ) — to become gray
  • Northern Sami: rátnut — to become gray
  • Southern Altai: бозорор (bozoror) — to become gray
  • Spanish: encanecer — to become gray
  • Swedish: gråna — to become gray
  • Turkish: grileşmek — to become gray
  • Ukrainian: сивіти (syvity) — to become gray
  • Ukrainian: посивіти (posyvity) — to become gray
  • Vietnamese: bạc — to become gray
  • Catalan: agrisar — to cause to become gray
  • Dutch: vergrijzen — to cause to become gray
  • Finnish: harmaannuttaa — to cause to become gray
  • Finnish: harmentaa — to cause to become gray
  • French: griser — to cause to become gray
  • Hungarian: szürkít — to cause to become gray
  • Hungarian: elszürkít — to cause to become gray
  • Ido: grizigar — to cause to become gray
  • Portuguese: acinzentar — to cause to become gray
  • Dutch: vergrijzen — to turn progressively older