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]