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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy, sooty |
| Synonyms: | begrimed, black, burning, caliginous, dingy, fumy, gray, grimy, messy, murky, reeking, silvery, smoke-colored, smoldering, thick, vaporous |
| Antonyms: | clean, clear, unpolluted |
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| Main Entry: | gray/grey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | muted silver in color |
| Synonyms: | ash, ashen, battleship, cinereal, clouded, dingy, dove, drab, dusky, dusty, granite, heather, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, oyster, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, shaded, silvered, silvery, slate, smoky, somber, stone |
| Main Entry: | hazy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloudy |
| Synonyms: | bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, clouded, crepuscular, dim, dull, dusky, faint, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, fumy, fuzzy, gauzy, indefinite, indistinct, misty, murky, mushy, nebulous, obfuscated, obfuscous, obscure, opaque, overcast, rimy, screened, shadowy, smoggy, smoky, soupy, steaming, thick, unclear, vague, vaporous, veiled |
| Antonyms: | clear, sunny, uncloudy, unhazy |
| Main Entry: | muddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark and cloudy |
| Synonyms: | addled, bemired, bespattered, black, blurred, boggy, caked, confused, dingy, dirty, dull, filthy, flat, foul, fuzzy, gloomy, greasy, grimy, grubby, gummy, gunky, hazy, impure, indistinct, marshy, miry, mucky, obscure, opaque, roily, sloppy, slushy, smoky, sodden, soggy, soiled, subfuse, swampy, turbid, unclean, unclear |
| Antonyms: | bright, clean, clear |
| Main Entry: | murky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, obscure |
| Synonyms: | black, caliginous, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dingy, dirty, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, filthy, foggy, foul, fuzzy, glowering, gray, grubby, impenetrable, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, nasty, nebulous, nubilous, overcast, roily, sad, smoky, somber, squalid, stormy, tenebrous, turbid, unclean |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light, luminous, sparkling, unobscured |
| Main Entry: | opaque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clouded, muddy |
| Synonyms: | blurred, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dirty, dull, dusky, filmy, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, gloomy, hazy, impenetrable, lusterless, misty, muddied, murky, nontranslucent, nontransparent, nubilous, obfuscated, shady, smoky, sooty, thick, turbid |
| Notes: | oblique means slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - or misleading; opaque means not transmitting or reflecting light - or not clearly understood or expressed |
| Antonyms: | clear, lucid, translucent, transparent, unclouded |
| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silver |
| Synonyms: | ash, ashen, cinereal, clouded, dappled, dingy, dove, drab, dusky, dusty, grey, heather, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, oyster, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, shaded, silvered, silvery, slate, smoky, somber, stone |
| Notes: | the distinction in spelling between British grey and American gray is recent, popping up in Samuel Johnson's dictionary |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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| Concept: | Gray. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
gray; neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille., [Pigments] Payne's gray; black.
-adjectives
gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous, cineritious; grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.
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