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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

the British spelling of gray, meaning the color between white and black;

e.g. He had a piping hot cup of earl grey tea.

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Similar Words

Argentine

Black

Blah

Bleak

Brindle

Careworn

Cheerless

Chill

Cimmerian

Cloudy

Cold

Dark

Depressing

Depressive

Desolate

Dire

Disconsolate

Dismal

Dreary

Dullish

Dun

Elegiac

Equidistant

Forlorn

Funereal

Gloomy

Glum

Godforsaken

Grayish

Howling

Lackluster

Leaden

Lonely

Lonesome

Longsome

Lugubrious

Miserable

Monotone

Moonless

Morbid

Morose

Murky

Pewter

Pleasureless

Plutonian

Prosy

Saturnine

Sepulchral

Silver

Silvery

Slate

Slaty

Snowy

Solemn

Somber

Steely

Suicidal

Sullen

Sunless

Tenebrific

Tenebrous

Twilit

Unbright

Unbrilliant

Undramatic

Uneventful

Unimaginative

Uninspiring

Unnewsworthy

Unsensational

Unspectacular

Unsurprising

Vapid

Wretched

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Opposite Words

Ablaze

Agleam

Aglitter

Aglow

Alight

Apparent

Auspicious

Bald

Bald-faced

Balmy

Barefaced

Beamish

Beatific

Bedazzling

Black-and-white

Blinding

Blissful

Blithe

Bright-line

Brindle

Broad

Bullish

Buoyant

Candescent

Cheerful

Cheery

Chromatic

Clean-cut

Clear

Clear-cut

Clement

Colored

Colorful

Cordial

Dazzling

Decided

Deep

Delighted

Distinct

Encouraging

Equable

Evident

Fair

Festive

Flashing

Friendly

Fulgent

Gay

Gemmy

Gentle

Glad

Glancing

Gleeful

Golden

Happy

Heartwarming

Hopeful

Incandescent

Jocose

Jocular

Jocund

Jolly

Jovial

Joyful

Joyous

Lambent

Light

Lighthearted

Likely

Lit

Lucent

Lucid

Luculent

Luminous

Lustrous

Manifest

Merry

Mild

Moderate

Moonlit

Motley

Multicolored

Nonambiguous

Obvious

Open-and-shut

Optimistic

Overjoyed

Overt

Overtly

Palpable

Patent

Pellucid

Perspicuous

Plain

Polychromatic

Polychrome

Prismatic

Promising

Propitious

Radiant

Rainbow

Rainless

Rich

Ringing

Rose-colored

Roseate

Rosy

Satisfied

Scintillant

Self-explanatory

Shining

Shiny

Splendid

Straightforward

Striated

Sunlit

Sunny

Superbright

Temperate

Thankful

Transparent

Tricolor

Twinkling

Ultrabright

Unambiguous

Uncomplicated

Unequivocal

Unmistakable

Upbeat

Varicolored

Varied

Variegated

Various

Well-defined

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Related Words

Achromatic

Age

Agonized

Anguished

Arid

Ashy

Baleful

Bitter

Black

Blue

Boring

Brindle

Brindled

Brokenhearted

Caliginous

Central

Cloudy

Colorless

Crestfallen

Dark

Darkling

Darksome

Dejected

Depressed

Desperate

Despondent

Develop

Dim

Disconsolate

Dismaying

Distressful

Doleful

Dolorous

Dour

Down

Downcast

Downhearted

Drab

Dreary

Dry

Dull

Dun

Dusk

Dusky

Dusty

Faded

Foreboding

Forlorn

Funeral

Gloomy

Glum

Grim

Grizzled

Grow

Halfway

Hangdog

Hazy

Heartbroken

Heartsick

Ho-hum

Hoary

Hopeless

Humdrum

Inauspicious

Inconsolable

Intermediary

Intermediate

Jejune

Lamentable

Leaden

Light

Lightless

Livid

Low

Low-spirited

Lowering

Lugubrious

Mat

Matte

Mature

Media

Medial

Median

Mediate

Medium

Melancholic

Melancholy

Menacing

Mid

Middle

Midmost

Minatory

Mind-numbing

Miserable

Monochromatic

Monotonous

Mournful

Mousy

Murky

Negative

Neutral

Numbing

Obscure

Old

Oppressive

Overcast

Pale

Pastel

Pedestrian

Pessimistic

Pitch-black

Pitch-dark

Plaintive

Plangent

Ponderous

Portentous

Progress

Rayless

Regretful

Ripen

Rueful

Sad

Sandy

Sepia

Sinister

Slow

Somber

Sorrowful

Sorry

Stale

Stodgy

Stuffy

Stupid

Stygian

Tame

Tedious

Tenebrific

Tenebrous

The

Threatening

Tiresome

Tiring

Uncolored

Undyed

Unhappy

Uninteresting

Unlit

Unpainted

Unstained

Upsetting

Washed-out

Washy

Wearisome

Weary

Weeping

White

Woebegone

Woeful

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