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greying

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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • /ˈɡreɪ.ɪŋ/
    • /ˈɡreɪ.ɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˈɡreɪ.ɪŋ/

Definitions of greying word

  • noun greying Present participle of grey. 1
  • adjective greying If someone has greying hair, there is a lot of grey hair mixed with the person's natural colour. 0
  • adjective greying becoming grey 0
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Parts of speech for Greying

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Greying

greying popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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Synonyms for greying

adjective greying

  • frosty — characterized by or producing frost; freezing; very cold: frosty weather.
  • salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • silvery — resembling silver; of a lustrous grayish-white color: the silvery moon.
  • white-haired — having hair that is white.
  • whitish — somewhat white; tending to white.

verb greying

  • unlit — not illuminated
  • blacken — To blacken something means to make it black or very dark in colour. Something that blackens becomes black or very dark in colour.
  • dim — DIM statement
  • eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
All 66 Synonyms of greying

Antonyms for greying

verb greying

  • lighten — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
  • clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
  • brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
  • illuminate — to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
  • whiten — Make or become white.
All 14 Antonyms of greying

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