grey

adjective

less common spelling of gray

1

a

: of the color gray

b

: tending toward gray

blue-gray eyes

c

: dull in color

2

: having the hair gray : hoary

3

: clothed in gray

4

a

: lacking cheer or brightness in mood, outlook, style, or flavor

also : dismal, gloomy

a gray day

b

: prosaically ordinary : dull, uninteresting

the boring, gray dullness of government

—P. J. O'Rourke

5

: having an intermediate and often vaguely defined position, condition, or character

an ethically gray area

Examples of grey in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This, instead, is a frozen grey winterscape of street shadows and perpetual darkness, with appropriate overtones of psychological horror. —The Week Uk, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024

Her skin is grey and cracked, her hair is sticking every which way, and she’s got a feral air about her. —Katie Campione, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024

The low, two-hundred-year-old fishing hut in its shaggy grey wood: its heavy logs, notched and cross-jointed. —Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

The grey ash trees and their mottled plumage were as one with each other, curving and branching to form a ceiling overhead. —Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024

Kids Definition

grey

variant of gray

Medical Definition

grey, greyout

chiefly British variant of gray, grayout

Biographical Definition

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biographical name (1)

ˈgrā 

2nd Earl 1764–1845 Charles Grey English statesman; prime minister (1830–34)

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biographical name (2)

Sir Edward 1862–1933 Viscount Grey of Fallodon ˈfa-lə-dᵊn  English politician

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biographical name (3)

Lady Jane 1537–1554 titular queen of England for 9 days

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biographical name (4)

Zane 1875–1939 American novelist