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What is the adjective for grayed?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs gray and grey which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

gray
  1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
  2. Dreary, gloomy.
  3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
  4. Relating to older people.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Wear a soft beige sweater because gray clothes worn too close to the face will make the complexion look washed out.”
      “The fresh-faced 52-year-old looks energetic and youthful, despite his thinning gray hair and glasses.”
      “This gray old man so bent and old. I know not why he told to me, his tale of life and tragedy.”
grey
  1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
  2. Dreary, gloomy.
  3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
  4. Relating to older people.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Wear a soft beige sweater, because grey clothes worn too close to the face will make the complexion look washed out.”
      “The fresh-faced 52-year-old looks energetic and youthful, despite his thinning grey hair and glasses.”
      “This grey old man so bent and old. I know not why he told to me, his tale of life and tragedy.”
greyish
  1. Alternative spelling of grayish
  2. Examples:
    1. “His skin is pale and greyish, and his hands painfully contorted by years of rheumatoid arthritis.”
      “In the W. Atlantic, the largest grunt is Haemulon album, the margate, greyish in general colour and an important food fish.”
      “Magnfied a dozen times, you can see the city centre and Hillbrow forming a greyish crescent at the bottom.”
grayish
  1. somewhat gray
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The process is characterized by dirty grayish or ash-gray-colored maculae on the skin of the trunk and limbs.”
      “Dark grayish smoke smothered the scene and the eerie green fire ate away at the hole in front of him.”
      “The sky took on a grayish hue and the temperature fell but after a few minutes conditions were back to normal.”
grayer
  1. comparative form of gray: more gray
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “When viewed from the underside, the collared dove appears grayer than a turtle dove, with black visible on the tail.”
      “That's okay, I though you had to be a lot older and grayer and at least have a few grandchildren to be a real rebbetzin anyway!”
      “Would her ministrations to the military be taken differently if she was older, grayer and a little less shapely?”
greyer
  1. comparative form of grey: more grey
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Are our lives so full of colour and drama that we must set out to make them greyer and more boring?”
      “The hair might be a bit thinner and greyer, but many of the faces in the historic village brass band are still recognisable.”
      “Compared to the domestic Bactrian camel, the wild Bactrian is greyer, slimmer, and has smaller sized humps spaced more widely apart.”
grayest
  1. superlative form of gray: most gray
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This is the design space in which we thrive and is the grayest area of the problem-solving process.”
      “Her eyes were their grayest, and scarlet spots burned on her cheeks.”
greyest
  1. superlative form of grey: most grey
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Today horrific memories of the greyest of days in January are hard to erase.”
      “By 2030, it is predicted that Germany will be the greyest country in the world.”
      “And the gorgeous gold casing will make you feel glam, even on the greyest of mornings.”
grayed
graying
greyed
greying
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