(esp. BrE ) ( AmE usually gray ) adj. , noun
1 colour/color
ADVERB
▪ uniformly
▪ very
▪
The sky looks very ~. I think it's going to rain.
▪ quite ( esp. BrE ), rather , slightly
ADJECTIVE
▪ dark
▪ light , pale
▪
a light ~ suit
▪ charcoal , silvery , slate , steel
▪
His steel gray hair was clipped short as usual.
2 with grey hair
VERBS
▪ be
▪ go , turn
▪
He went ~ before he was forty.
ADVERB
▪ very
▪ quite , slightly
▪
He'd turned quite ~.
▪ mostly
▪
The old man's beard was mostly ~.
▪ completely
▪
She was completely ~ by the age of thirty.
▪ prematurely
Grey is used with these nouns: ↑ afternoon , ↑ area , ↑ ash , ↑ background , ↑ beard , ↑ cloud , ↑ dawn , ↑ day , ↑ expanse , ↑ eye , ↑ face , ↑ gaze , ↑ hair , ↑ head , ↑ horse , ↑ marble , ↑ mist , ↑ morning , ↑ sea , ↑ shape , ↑ sky , ↑ smoke , ↑ squirrel , ↑ streak , ↑ suburb , ↑ tone , ↑ weather , ↑ winter