Dictionary Check: gray
"gray" is a valid word!
Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
adjective
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
Example:
"the little grey cells"
adjective
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Example:
"whose beard with age is hoar"
adjective
used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
Example:
"a stalwart grey figure"
adjective
intermediate in character or position
Example:
"a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
noun
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
noun
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
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