GREY

adj. 1 ashen, leaden, colourless, pale, pallid, wan, livid, pearly, griseous, smoky, sooty, bloodless The cadaver's skin was a dead, whitish grey 2 gloomy, dismal, dull, depressing, glum, dreary, sombre, drab, cheerless, dark, murky, foggy, misty, cloudy, overcast, sunless As if to mould her temperament, Kathleen was born on a grey December day in 1791 3 aged, elderly, hoary, old, venerable, ancient A stooped, grey crone inched along, muttering to herself 4 mature, wise, experienced Seventy years have spread their grey experience over his hoary head