grey

grey 1 S2 W2 British English , gray American English / ɡreɪ / 形容词

1 colour having the colour of dark clouds, neither black nor white :

an old lady with grey hair

a grey sky

dark/light grey

dark grey trousers → battleship grey , iron-grey , → slate grey at slate 1 ( 3 )

2 hair having grey hair

go/turn grey

She was a tall thin woman who had gone grey early.

3 face looking pale because you are tired, frightened, or ill

grey with

As he listened, his face went grey with shock.

4 boring boring and unattractive 反义词 colourful :

the grey anonymous men in government offices

visions of a grey and empty world

5 weather if the weather is grey, the sky is full of clouds and the sun is not bright 反义词 bright :

a grey day

6 of old people [仅用于名词前] British English connected with old people :

the grey vote

7 grey area used to talk about a situation in which something is not clearly a particular thing, so that people are not sure how to deal with it :

people in the grey area between loyalty and opposition to the government

— greyness 名词 [不可数名词]