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GREYNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
Synonyms:
gray; grayness; grey; greyness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("greyness" is a kind of...):
achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greyness"):
ash gray; ash grey; silver; silver gray; silver grey (a light shade of grey)
charcoal; charcoal gray; charcoal grey; oxford gray; oxford grey (a very dark grey color)
dapple-gray; dapple-grey; dappled-gray; dappled-grey (grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings)
iron-gray; iron-grey (the color of freshly broken cast iron)
tattletale gray; tattletale grey (a greyish white)
Davy's gray; Davy's grey; iron blue; steel gray; steel grey (slightly purplish or bluish dark grey)
Derivation:
grey (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black)
