gray

• Cimmerian
• achromatic
• advance
• age
• argentine
• ashen
• ashy
• black
• bleak
• bloom
• blossom
• blue
• bourgeon
• brindle
• brindled
• burgeon
• chalky
• cheerless
• chill
• chocolate
• cloudy
• cold
• colorless
• comfortless
• dark
• darkening
• dejected
• depressed
• depressing
• depressive
• desolate
• desperate
• despondent
• develop
• dim
• dire
• dirty
• discomfiting
• disconsolate
• discouraging
• disheartening
• dismal
• dismaying
• dispiriting
• distressful
• distressing
• dour
• down
• drab
• drear
• dreary
• dreich
• droopy
• dull
• dun
• elegiac
• elegiacal
• evolve
• faded
• flourish
• flower
• forlorn
• funereal
• get along
• get on
• gloomy
• glum
• godforsaken
• grayish
• grim
• grizzled
• grow
• grow up
• hangdog
• hoar
• hoary
• hopeless
• inconsolable
• lamentable
• leaden
• livid
• lonely
• lonesome
• louring
• loury
• low
• lowering
• lowery
• lugubrious
• mature
• melancholic
• melancholy
• mellow
• menacing
• mirthless
• miserable
• morbid
• morose
• mournful
• mousey
• mousy
• murky
• negative
• neutral
• open
• oppressive
• pale
• palish
• pessimistic
• pewter
• plaintive
• plutonian
• progress
• ripen
• sad
• sandy
• saturnine
• sepia
• sepulchral
• silver
• silvery
• slate
• slatey
• slaty
• soften
• solemn
• somber
• sombre
• sorrowful
• steely
• sullen
• sunless
• tenebrific
• tenebrous
• threatening
• unfold
• unhappy
• upsetting
• washed-out
• white
• whitish
• woebegone
• woeful
• wretched

• ablaze
• backslide
• blithe
• blithesome
• bright
• buoyant
• cheerful
• cheering
• cheery
• chromatic
• colored
• colorful
• comforting
• cordial
• decay
• decline
• deep
• degenerate
• deteriorate
• droop
• dry
• encouraging
• fade
• festive
• flag
• friendly
• gay
• heartwarming
• hopeful
• jocund
• jolly
• joyful
• joyous
• lapse
• lighthearted
• lightsome
• merry
• mirthful
• motley
• multicolored
• optimistic
• polychromatic
• polychrome
• regress
• retrogress
• return
• revert
• rich
• sag
• shrivel
• sink
• sunshiny
• varicolored
• variegated
• wane
• weaken
• wilt
• wither
• worsen

• noun
  1. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
  2. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
  3. An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
  4. A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
  5. 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. Symbol: Gy.
• verb
  1. To become gray.
  2. To cause to become gray.
  3. To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region).
  4. To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
• adjective
  1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
  2. Dreary, gloomy.
  3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
  4. Relating to older people.

• The sky was cloudy and gray all morning.
• Her hair has started to turn gray.
• He wore a gray suit to the meeting.
• The cat has soft gray fur.
• Autumn days often feel cold and gray.

jading

lackluster

obfuscated

sad

saddened

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