Grey - English meaning

adjective

(of a person) suffering from anaemia.

Usage examples:

The doctor said you were a bit anaemic

noun

A person suffering from anaemia.

Usage examples:

Cumin seeds are a rich source of iron and hence very beneficial for anaemics

adjective

(of a person's face) very pale with shock, fear, or illness.

Usage examples:

Eleanor's ashen face

adjective

Made of timber from the ash tree.

Usage examples:

I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowl…

adjective

(of a person’s face) looking pale and gray from illness, shock, or fear

noun

A door at the back or side of a building, or at the back of a vehicle

Usage examples:

There's someone at the back door., he opened the back door and gestured for her to get into the car…

adjective

Lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting.

Usage examples:

Bland, mass-produced pop music

adjective

(of a revolution or conflict) without violence or killing.

Usage examples:

A bloodless coup

adjective

Happening without the use of violence

Usage examples:

The rebel soldiers seized power in a bloodless coup.

adjective

Not interesting; tedious.

Usage examples:

I've got a boring job in an office

verb

Make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging.

Usage examples:

Bore a hole in the wall to pass the cable through

verb

Cause (someone) to feel weary and uninterested by dull talk or behaviour.

Usage examples:

She is too polite to bore us with anecdotes

abbreviation

(on scorecards) caught by.

Usage examples:

Me waugh c lara b walsh 19

abbreviation

Care of.

noun

The third letter of the alphabet.

Usage examples:

He scraped along with c's and d's in most subjects

adjective

A characterless person or thing is not interesting or has no style or unusual qualities

Usage examples:

It's just one of those characterless modern cities., a perfect but characterless face

adjective

(especially of a gas or liquid) without colour.

Usage examples:

A colourless liquid

adjective

Having no colour

Usage examples:

Water and glass are colourless., carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, poisonous gas., it is …

adjective

Free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.

Usage examples:

The jacket kept me warm and dry

noun

(of information, writing, etc.) dully factual.

Usage examples:

The dry facts of the matter

verb

Free from liquid or moisture

adjective

Lacking interest or excitement.

Usage examples:

Your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring

verb

Make or become dull or less intense.

Usage examples:

Time dulls the memory

adjective

Not interesting or exciting; boring

Usage examples:

Many of the courtroom events were dull and routine., the lecture was dry, dull, and full of statist…

adjective

(of a person) remote and impersonal; anonymous.

Usage examples:

The faceless bureaucrats who made the rules

adjective

Lacking any particular character; difficult to describe or deal with

Usage examples:

Faceless bureaucracy

adjective

Having a level surface; without raised areas or indentations.

Usage examples:

He sat down on a flat rock

adverb

In or to a horizontal position.

Usage examples:

He was lying flat on his back

noun

The flat part of something.

Usage examples:

She placed the flat of her hand over her glass

adjective

Slightly grey in colour

adjective

Greyish white.

Usage examples:

Hoary cobwebs

adjective

Very old and familiar and therefore not interesting or funny

Usage examples:

He told a few hoary old jokes and nobody laughed.

adjective

Having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial style, manner, or nature.

Usage examples:

An informal atmosphere

adjective

Not formal or official, or not suitable for official or special occasions

Usage examples:

An informal gathering, informal talks resumed today in an attempt to end the strike., it’s ok to dr…

adjective

Lacking flavour; weak or tasteless.

Usage examples:

Mugs of insipid coffee

adjective

(of food) lacking a strong taste or character, or (of people, activities, or entertainment) lacking in interest or energy

Usage examples:

An insipid flavor, insipid tv sitcoms

adjective

Not even or balanced in shape or arrangement.

Usage examples:

His strong, irregular features

noun

A member of an irregular military force.

Usage examples:

The filipino operational center of gravity was the ability to sustain its force of 100,000 irregula…

adjective

Not regular in shape or form; having parts of different shapes or sizes

Usage examples:

An irregular surface, there are irregular spaces between the words., he showed up at irregular inte…

adjective

Naive, simplistic, and superficial.

Usage examples:

Their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions

adjective

Very simple or childish

Usage examples:

He made jejune generalizations about how all students were lazy and never did any work., a jejune l…

adjective

Dull, heavy, or slow.

Usage examples:

His eyelids were leaden with sleep

adjective

Like lead in color or weight; gray or heavy

Usage examples:

They said goodbye under a leaden sky.

adjective

Dead or apparently dead.

Usage examples:

His lifeless body was taken from the river

adjective

Dead or appearing to be dead

Usage examples:

A lifeless body, fig. the performance was boring and lifeless (= lacking interest or energy).

adjective

Lacking distinctive or interesting features or characteristics.

Usage examples:

She lived in a nondescript suburban apartment block

noun

A nondescript person or thing.

Usage examples:

The nondescripts were straight out of the nine-to-five banking bureaucracy

adjective

Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment.

Usage examples:

Choose pale floral patterns for walls

verb

Become pale in one's face from shock or fear.

Usage examples:

I paled at the thought of what she might say

noun

A wooden stake or post used with others to form a fence.

Usage examples:

Get creative with a picket fence and have diagonal pales nailed to the horizontal boards.

adjective

(of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health.

Usage examples:

His face, with its wrinkled, pallid complexion

adjective

Pale and looking unhealthy

Usage examples:

He looked pallid and bloated a few years ago.

adjective

Lacking strong emotion; unemotional.

Usage examples:

The voice is passionless, monotone

noun

A folded pastry case with a savoury filling, typically of seasoned meat and vegetables.

Usage examples:

I've always associated it with school meals, so to see it put in a shortcrust pasty is an intriguin…

adjective

(of a person's face) unhealthily pale.

Usage examples:

A pasty complexion

adjective

(of someone’s skin) pale and unhealthy looking

Usage examples:

A pasty face

adjective

Resembling a pearl in lustre or colour.

Usage examples:

Nice pearly teeth

noun

Pearly kings and queens.

Usage examples:

Her mum and dad had been pearlies

adjective

White and shiny, like a pearl

Usage examples:

Pearly white teeth

adjective

(of a person's face or complexion) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown colour.

Usage examples:

His skin was sallow and pitted

noun

A willow tree, especially one of a low-growing or shrubby kind.

Usage examples:

Sallows grow much faster, if they are planted within reach of water, or in a very moorish ground, o…

noun

A precious shiny greyish-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 47.

Usage examples:

Beryllium, calcium, silver and antimony have no appreciable effect on mechanical properties.

adjective

Made of or coloured like silver.

Usage examples:

A silver necklace

verb

Short for silver medal.

Usage examples:

She won three silvers

adjective

Like silver in colour or appearance; shiny and grey-white.

Usage examples:

Shoals of silvery fish

adjective

Like silver

Usage examples:

The grass was silvery with frost., we were woken early by the peal of silvery bells.

adjective

Filled with or smelling of smoke.

Usage examples:

A smoky office

adjective

Similar to smoke in flavor, appearance, etc.

Usage examples:

The chicken has a nice smoky flavor., a smoky room

adjective

Covered with or coloured like soot.

Usage examples:

His olive skin and sooty eyes

adjective

(especially of a place) lacking character and individuality.

Usage examples:

She found the apartment beautiful but soulless

adjective

Showing no human influence or qualities

Usage examples:

A soulless building of grey concrete

adjective

Lacking courage, vigour, or vivacity.

Usage examples:

Ruth and i played a spiritless game of scrabble

adjective

Having no energy and enthusiasm

Usage examples:

It was a spiritless performance.

adjective

(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.

Usage examples:

Stale bread

verb

Make or become stale.

Usage examples:

She would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now

verb

(of an animal, especially a horse) urinate.

Usage examples:

The horse staled while he was riding

adjective

Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous.

Usage examples:

A tedious journey

adjective

Not readily using or demonstrating the use of the imagination; stolid and somewhat dull.

Usage examples:

The production was plodding and unimaginative

adjective

Not new, original, or clever; not showing any imagination

adjective

Not arousing curiosity or interest.

Usage examples:

The scenery is dull and uninteresting

adjective

Not interesting

adjective

Not officially authorized or confirmed.

Usage examples:

Unofficial reports said that dozens of people were injured

adjective

Not connected with or coming from a recognized office or authority

Usage examples:

We think of him as the unofficial town historian., unemployment has been unofficially estimated at …

adjective

Not officially approved by a person in authority, the government, etc.

Usage examples:

Unofficial estimates/figures/targets profits were below unofficial estimates., unofficial data/repo…

adjective

Not particularly interesting or surprising.

Usage examples:

His early childhood was unremarkable

adjective

Ordinary and not interesting

Usage examples:

An unremarkable town

adjective

(of a person's complexion or appearance) pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion.

Usage examples:

She was looking wan and bleary-eyed

abbreviation

Wide area network.

noun

A computer network in which the computers connected may be far apart, generally having a radius of more than 1 km.

adjective

Having a smooth, pale, translucent surface or appearance like that of wax.

Usage examples:

A canopy of waxen, creamy blooms

adjective

Of the colour of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light; the opposite of black.

Usage examples:

A sheet of white paper

noun

White colour or pigment.

Usage examples:

Garnet-red flowers flecked with white

verb

A member of a light-skinned people, especially one of european extraction.