ETYM Greek, colorless; a priv. + khroma color.
Having no color; SYN. achromous.
1. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; SYN. blanched, bloodless, livid, white.
2. Made of wood of the ash tree.
1. Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
2. Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
1. Of an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; SYN. grey, grayish, greyish.
2. Clothed in gray or a gray costume.
3. Intermediate in character or position; SYN. grey.
4. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; SYN. grey, gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, hoar, hoary, white-haired.
5. Used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); SYN. grey.
See gray.
Grizzled