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This post is part of the Color Meaning Blog Series, detailing the meanings associated with colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, grey, black, white, brown, pink, turquoise, gold, silver, and beige.
Gray is a cool, neutral, and balanced color. The color gray is an emotionless, moody color that is typically associated with meanings of dull, dirty, and dingy, as well as formal, conservative, and sophisticated.
The color gray is a timeless and practical color that is often associated with loss or depression. Dark, charcoal gray communicates some of the strength and mystery of black. It is a sophisticated color that lack the negativity of the color black. Light grays can carry some of the attributes of the color white.
The gray color affects the mind and body by causing unsettling feelings. Light grays are feminine in nature, while dark grays are masculine in nature.
Other meanings associated with the color gray:
The phrase “gray matter” refers to smarts, intelligence, brains, and intellect.
The saying “gray power” is used in reference to the power of the elderly or senior citizens.
The term “gray page” is a text-heavy page with very little contrast or white space.
The expression “gray-hair” is sometimes used to refer to an elderly person.
The phrase “gray water” refers to dirty water such as water that has been drained from a bathtub or kitchen sink.
Additional words that represent different shades, tints, and values of the color gray: charcoal, slate, iron gray, ashen, lead, mousy, gunmetal, silver, dove gray, powder grey, oyster, pearl, taupe, sere, Payne’s gray.
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Gray is a cool, neutral, and balanced color. The color gray is an emotionless, moody color that is typically associated with meanings of dull, dirty, and dingy, as well as formal, conservative, and sophisticated.
The color gray is a timeless and practical color that is often associated with loss or depression. Dark, charcoal gray communicates some of the strength and mystery of black. It is a sophisticated color that lack the negativity of the color black. Light grays can carry some of the attributes of the color white.
The gray color affects the mind and body by causing unsettling feelings. Light grays are feminine in nature, while dark grays are masculine in nature.
Other meanings associated with the color gray:
The phrase “gray matter” refers to smarts, intelligence, brains, and intellect.
The saying “gray power” is used in reference to the power of the elderly or senior citizens.
The term “gray page” is a text-heavy page with very little contrast or white space.
The expression “gray-hair” is sometimes used to refer to an elderly person.
The phrase “gray water” refers to dirty water such as water that has been drained from a bathtub or kitchen sink.
Additional words that represent different shades, tints, and values of the color gray: charcoal, slate, iron gray, ashen, lead, mousy, gunmetal, silver, dove gray, powder grey, oyster, pearl, taupe, sere, Payne’s gray.
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At the end of the nineteenth century, while working on the issue of the OED (then known as NED: New English Dictionary) that was to feature the word gray, James A. H. Murray sent letters to various people, asking their opinion about the differences between the variants gray and grey. A brief summary of the answers appeared in the entry, and one can read them there. Some contributors to scholarly journals found it necessary to publish notes on the adjective (the dates match the time of Murray’s correspondence so closely that coincidence can be probably ruled out). I will quote two passages pertaining to the subject (the spelling of the British originals has been preserved).
(1) “In A Descriptive Handbook of Modern Water Colours, by J. Scott Taylor, London: Winsor and Newton, 1887, neutral tint is described as ‘A compound shadow colour of a cool neutral character. It is not very permanent, as the gray is apt to become grey by exposure’. Has anyone besides this author ever made a distinction of meaning between grayand grey? I do not know how the distinction is to be converted in speaking unless the words are differently pronounced” (1897).
(2) “I may be held as hypocritical in raising as a moot point a question regarding the impressions given to the mind by the term grey or gray; but there is a blue tone that has no other word to convey it to the ordinary reader’s imagination than gray, which, according to one dictionary, means ‘a mixture of black and white; an ashy colour’. Painters and color scientists having recognised the difficulty, overcome it by interchanging the vowels. Thus, in works on painting, grey expresses the mixture of white and black, or black and any other colour; gray is used for a mixture of white and blue…. I venture to solicit an opinion on the suggestions (a) that henceforward gray be used by careful writers to express a tone of blue; grey, a shade of black..” (1899).
One can see that the two authors offer different solutions. It would be instructive to hear from artists lamong our readers whether they differentiate between gray and grey and, if so, whether they agree with the descriptions made more than a hundred years ago. According to Murray’s abstract, grey appears to some as being “more delicate,” while gray is called “warmer” (this is what several answers he received amounted to). Nowadays, grayis the usual spelling in American English, while greyis British, except, of course in family names (consider Dorian Gray). Grey predominated in England around 1900 and is the main entry in most British dictionaries (gray see grey).
Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554)
We witness an amusing case of language creating reality rather than being its mirror. The existence of two variants—gray and grey—is an accident of chaotic English spelling, but, since two written forms exist in English, some speakers ascribe different meanings to them and even “feel” that greyrefers to a more delicate or less warm tone. The word has been known since the Old English period. It was spelled græg (the vowel æ designated a sound resembling Modern Engl. a in bag, but protracted; final g resembled y in Modern Engl. yes). The cognates of gray exist everywhere in Germanic (only the Gothic form has not been attested). Since all of them once ended in –w rather than -g, the protoform remains a matter of debate, and we will pass it over. Outside Germanic, Latin ravus “gray; tawny” (like græg, it had a long vowel in the root) resembles græg. However, it lacks initial g-, supposedly, because the original, unrecorded form gravus lost it. The vowels—Latin long a and Old Engl. long æ, from long e—do not match either, so that perhaps græg and ravus look alike by chance. Those who enjoy such riddles will find evasive answers in dictionaries and will not learn more than what has been said here.
The great question of etymology is why a certain combination of sounds has the meaning ascribed to it. Why does gray mean “gray”? Apparently, when color names were coined, they referred to some visible objects. Consider the adjective ashen, compounds (or phrases) like sky blue and peach colored, and idioms like black as hell or red as a rose. Sometimes we can “decipher” such adjectives. For example, green has the same base as grow and grass, so that green was probably understood as the color of vegetation, which makes excellent sense. What then is gray around us? The sky at daybreak, ashes, the fur of the hare in summer and of the wolf in all seasons, cats in the dark, sparrows and many other birds, old stones, old people’s hair.. None of those words (dawn, hare, hair, wolf, etc.) resembles gray. When there is a connection (as in Icelandic, between gray and a participle describing dawn), the path is from the color to the appearance of the sky, not the other way around.
(1) “In A Descriptive Handbook of Modern Water Colours, by J. Scott Taylor, London: Winsor and Newton, 1887, neutral tint is described as ‘A compound shadow colour of a cool neutral character. It is not very permanent, as the gray is apt to become grey by exposure’. Has anyone besides this author ever made a distinction of meaning between grayand grey? I do not know how the distinction is to be converted in speaking unless the words are differently pronounced” (1897).
(2) “I may be held as hypocritical in raising as a moot point a question regarding the impressions given to the mind by the term grey or gray; but there is a blue tone that has no other word to convey it to the ordinary reader’s imagination than gray, which, according to one dictionary, means ‘a mixture of black and white; an ashy colour’. Painters and color scientists having recognised the difficulty, overcome it by interchanging the vowels. Thus, in works on painting, grey expresses the mixture of white and black, or black and any other colour; gray is used for a mixture of white and blue…. I venture to solicit an opinion on the suggestions (a) that henceforward gray be used by careful writers to express a tone of blue; grey, a shade of black..” (1899).
One can see that the two authors offer different solutions. It would be instructive to hear from artists lamong our readers whether they differentiate between gray and grey and, if so, whether they agree with the descriptions made more than a hundred years ago. According to Murray’s abstract, grey appears to some as being “more delicate,” while gray is called “warmer” (this is what several answers he received amounted to). Nowadays, grayis the usual spelling in American English, while greyis British, except, of course in family names (consider Dorian Gray). Grey predominated in England around 1900 and is the main entry in most British dictionaries (gray see grey).
Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554)
We witness an amusing case of language creating reality rather than being its mirror. The existence of two variants—gray and grey—is an accident of chaotic English spelling, but, since two written forms exist in English, some speakers ascribe different meanings to them and even “feel” that greyrefers to a more delicate or less warm tone. The word has been known since the Old English period. It was spelled græg (the vowel æ designated a sound resembling Modern Engl. a in bag, but protracted; final g resembled y in Modern Engl. yes). The cognates of gray exist everywhere in Germanic (only the Gothic form has not been attested). Since all of them once ended in –w rather than -g, the protoform remains a matter of debate, and we will pass it over. Outside Germanic, Latin ravus “gray; tawny” (like græg, it had a long vowel in the root) resembles græg. However, it lacks initial g-, supposedly, because the original, unrecorded form gravus lost it. The vowels—Latin long a and Old Engl. long æ, from long e—do not match either, so that perhaps græg and ravus look alike by chance. Those who enjoy such riddles will find evasive answers in dictionaries and will not learn more than what has been said here.
The great question of etymology is why a certain combination of sounds has the meaning ascribed to it. Why does gray mean “gray”? Apparently, when color names were coined, they referred to some visible objects. Consider the adjective ashen, compounds (or phrases) like sky blue and peach colored, and idioms like black as hell or red as a rose. Sometimes we can “decipher” such adjectives. For example, green has the same base as grow and grass, so that green was probably understood as the color of vegetation, which makes excellent sense. What then is gray around us? The sky at daybreak, ashes, the fur of the hare in summer and of the wolf in all seasons, cats in the dark, sparrows and many other birds, old stones, old people’s hair.. None of those words (dawn, hare, hair, wolf, etc.) resembles gray. When there is a connection (as in Icelandic, between gray and a participle describing dawn), the path is from the color to the appearance of the sky, not the other way around.
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