Synonyms for grey
- adjective
- British English
Most common
bleak dreary somber US drab gray-headed grizzled hoary mouse-colored
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Bleak — dreary, gloomy, cloudy
dark, drab, dreary, gloomy, bleak, grim, somber US, sombre UK, dismal, wan, solemn, saturnine, drear, drearisome rare
2. Gray-headed — gray-haired
gray-headed, grizzled, white-haired, gray-haired, silver-haired, grizzly, hoar dated
4. Greyish — of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
- adj. 2
Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
- adj. 3
Gray-haired.
I have already gone gray and lost my looks.
- adj. 4
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
Related words
- Word family
- greyback greybeard grey-blue greyhound greyish greylag greyline greyly
- Phrases
- grey area grey club-rush grey partridge grey alder grey ghost grey mullet grey nurse shark grey warbler
- Other spellings
- gray US
Example sentences
- bleak To some people, Algeria's future is looking bleak.
- dreary I've got to go to another dreary meeting tomorrow.
- somber We heard somber hollow sounds from the cave.
- drab This morning, the world is grey and drab.
- grizzled Ak, as was his habit when in thought, stroked his grizzled beard slowly.
By length
- 3 letters
- old1, wan1
- 4 letters
- dark1, aged1, grim1, drab1, ashy2, hoar1
- 5 letters
- white1, elder2, fuzzy2, bleak1, livid2, wooly2, hoary2, drear
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, solemn2, dismal2, dreary2, somber2, woolly2, sombre, pallid2, woolie
- 7 letters
- ancient2, colored2, neutral2, elderly3, grizzly2, greyish, grayish2
- 8 letters
- coloured2, grizzled2, griseous
- 9 letters
- venerable4, geriatric4, saturnine, cobwebbed
- 10 letters
- achromatic, drearisome
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ashy2 = 2 syllables).