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| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silver |
| Synonyms: | ashen, dappled, dingy, drab, dusky, dusty, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, slate, smoky, somber, stone, ash, cinereal, clouded, dove, grey, heather, oyster, shaded, silvered, silvery |
| Notes: | the distinction in spelling between British grey and American gray is recent, popping up in Samuel Johnson's dictionary |
| Main Entry: | gray/grey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | muted silver in color |
| Synonyms: | ashen, battleship*, dingy, drab, dusky, dusty, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, slate, smoky, somber, stone, ash, cinereal, clouded, dove, granite, heather, oyster, shaded, silvered, silvery |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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-nouns
gray; neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille., [Pigments] Payne's gray; black [more].
-adjectives
gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous, cineritious; grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.
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| Main Entry: | aged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, elderly, gray, moth-eaten*, passé*, rusty*, senior citizen, shot*, timeworn, venerable, worn, age-old, been around, creaky, getting on, oldie, over the hill, senescent, worse for wear |
| Antonyms: | new, unripe, young, youthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ashen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gray |
| Synonyms: | anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white |
| Main Entry: | darken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become shaded, unlit |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, blacken, deepen, dim, eclipse, fog, gray, haze, murk, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, tone down*, cloud over, cloud up, make dim |
| Antonyms: | brighten, illuminate, lighten, whiten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drab |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, colorless |
| Synonyms: | arid, blah*, bleak, boring, brown, cheerless, desolate, dingy, dismal, dreary, dry, faded, flat, gloomy, gray, grungy, lackluster, muddy, murky, run-down, same, shabby, somber, unchanging, uninspired, vapid, zero*, characterless, dull as dishwater, lusterless, subfuse |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, inspired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in old age |
| Synonyms: | aged, aging, ancient, gray*, hoary, old, retired, tired, venerable, been around, declining, long in tooth, lot of mileage, no spring chicken, olden, on last leg, over the hill |
| Antonyms: | young, youth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy, obscure |
| Synonyms: | cloudy, dark, dim, filmy, fuzzy, gray, indistinct, misty, murky, mushy, nebulous, unclear, vague, vaporous, blurred, ceiling zero, closed in, clouded, fogged in, pea-soupy, smazy, smoggy, socked in, soupy, vapory, zero-zero |
| Antonyms: | clear |
| Main Entry: | murky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, obscure |
| Synonyms: | black, cheerless, cloudy, dark, dim, dingy, dirty, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, dusk, dusky, filthy, foggy, foul, fuzzy, gray, grubby*, impenetrable, lowering, misty, muddy, nasty, nebulous, overcast, sad, smoky, somber, squalid, stormy, tenebrous, turbid, unclean, caliginous, darkened, dun, glowering, mucky, nubilous, roily |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light, luminous, sparkling, unobscured |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obscure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal, hide |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, becloud, bedim, belie, blear, blind, block, block out, blur, camouflage, cloak, cloud, con, confuse, cover, darken, dim, disguise, double-talk*, eclipse, equivocate, falsify, fog, fuzz, gloom, gray, haze, mask, misrepresent, mist, muddy, murk, obfuscate, overcast, overshadow, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, stonewall*, veil, wrap, befog, cloud the issue, cover up, muddy the waters, overcloud, pettifog, throw up smoke screen |
| Antonyms: | illuminate, loose, reveal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overcast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloudy, darkened |
| Synonyms: | dark, dismal, dreary, dull, gray, hazy, leaden, lowering, murky, nebulous, oppressive, somber, sunless, threatening, clouded, clouded over, not clear, not fair |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, sunny |
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, blanched, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, dim, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, sickly, spectral, thin, unsubstantial, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, white, ashy, bleached, deathlike, doughy, waxlike, whitish |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
| Main Entry: | pallid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, blanched, bloodless, colorless, dull, faded, feeble, ghastly, gray, lackluster, lifeless, pasty, sallow, sickly, spiritless, uninspired, wan, weak, ashy, whitish |
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shut out the light |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, blacken, cloud, conceal, cover, darken, deepen, dim, eclipse, gray, hide, mute, obscure, overshadow, protect, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shutter, tone down, umbrage, veil, be overcast, cast a shadow, cloud over, cloud up, inumbrate |
| Antonyms: | open |
| Main Entry: | smoky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy, sooty |
| Synonyms: | black, burning, dingy, gray, grimy, messy, murky, thick, vaporous, begrimed, caliginous, fumy, reeking, silvery, smoke-colored, smoldering |
| Antonyms: | clean, clear, unpolluted |
| Main Entry: | sunless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | cloudy, dismal, dusky, gloomy, gray, overcast, rainy |
| Main Entry: | over-the-hill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | past middle age |
| Synonyms: | ancient, elderly, gray, old, past one's prime |
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