greyly | (adverb) having a grey appearance | Synonyms: grayly |
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greyness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, grey |
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grid | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: gridiron |
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(noun) an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube | Synonyms: control grid |
(noun) a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region | Synonyms: power grid, power system |
(noun) a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material | Synonyms: storage-battery grid |
(noun) a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines | - |
griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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(verb) cook on a griddle | - |
griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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(noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
gridiron | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: grid |
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(noun) the playing field on which football is played | Synonyms: football field |
gridlock | (noun) a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible | - |
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grief | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: sorrow |
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(noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, heartache, heartbreak |
grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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(noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
(noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
grieve | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: sorrow |
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(verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: aggrieve |
griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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grieving | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning, sorrowing |
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grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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(adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
(adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
grievously | (adverb) in a grievous manner | - |
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griffin | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffon, gryphon |
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griffon | (noun) breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle | Synonyms: Belgian griffon, Brussels griffon |
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(noun) breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France | Synonyms: wire-haired pointing griffon |
(noun) large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings | Synonyms: griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus |
(noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, gryphon |
grifter | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler |
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grigri | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: greegree, gres-gris |
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grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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(noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
(verb) cook over or under a grill | - |
(verb) examine thoroughly | - |
grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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(noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
(noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
grilled | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: barbecued |
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(adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: broiled |
grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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grillwork | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: wirework |
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(noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grille |
grim | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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(adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low-spirited, low |
(adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry |
(adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
(adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, mordant |
(adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, forbidding |
grimace | (noun) a contorted facial expression | Synonyms: face |
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(verb) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state | Synonyms: make a face, pull a face |
grime | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grunge, soil, stain |
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(verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, soil |
griminess | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: grubbiness |
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grimly | (adverb) in a grim implacable manner | - |
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grimness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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(noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness |
grimoire | (noun) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) | - |
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grimy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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grin | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grinning, smile, smiling |
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(verb) to draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl | - |
grind | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization |
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(noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding |
(noun) the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground | - |
(noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk |
(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash |
(verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grate |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch |
(verb) shape or form by grinding | - |
(verb) created by grinding | - |
(verb) dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced | - |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
grinder | (noun) a machine tool that polishes metal | - |
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(noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: mill, milling machinery |
(noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: molar |
(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
grinding | (noun) a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) | - |
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(noun) material resulting from the process of grinding | - |
(noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools | - |
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gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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grinner | (noun) a person who grins | - |
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grinning | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, smile, smiling |
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griot | (noun) a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village | - |
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grip | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold |
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(noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
(noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold |
(noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip |
(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grasp |
(noun) worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | - |
(noun) the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction |
(verb) hold fast or firmly | - |
(verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grapple |
(verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, spellbind, transfix |
gripe | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, kick, squawk |
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(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, grouse, holler, squawk |
gripes | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, griping, intestinal colic |
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griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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grippe | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, influenza |
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gripping | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, riveting |
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gripsack | (noun) a small suitcase | - |
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grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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grisly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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grison | (noun) carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts | Synonyms: Galictis vittatus, Grison vittatus |
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grissino | (noun) a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
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grist | (noun) grain intended to be or that has been ground | - |
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gristle | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: cartilage |
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gristly | (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery |
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gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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grit | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, gumption, guts, moxie, sand |
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(noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: gritrock, gritstone |
(verb) clench together | - |
(verb) cover with a grit | - |
gritrock | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritstone |
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grits | (noun) coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States | Synonyms: hominy grits |
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gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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gritty | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy |
grivet | (noun) white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face | Synonyms: Cercopithecus aethiops |
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grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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(verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
(verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
grizzled | (adjective) having dark hairs mixed with grey or white | - |
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grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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(noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
groak | (verb) look or stare at longingly | - |
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groan | (noun) an utterance expressing pain or disapproval | Synonyms: moan |
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(verb) indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure | Synonyms: moan |
groaner | (noun) a person who groans | - |
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groat | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: fourpence |
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groats | (noun) the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals | - |
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grocer | (noun) a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies) | - |
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grocery | (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery store, market |
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(noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: foodstuff |
groenendael | (noun) black-coated sheepdog with a heavily plumed tail | - |
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grog | (noun) rum cut with water | - |
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grogginess | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: semiconsciousness, stupefaction, stupor |
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(noun) a groggy state resulting from weariness | - |
(noun) a dazed and staggering state caused by alcohol | - |
groggy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, logy, stuporous |
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grogram | (noun) a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or mohair and often stiffened with gum | - |
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groin | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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(noun) a curved edge formed by two intersecting vaults | - |
(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals | Synonyms: inguen |
(verb) build with groins | - |
grok | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, savvy |
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grommet | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grummet, loop |
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gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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groom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: bridegroom |
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(noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: hostler, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
(noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: bridegroom |
(verb) care for one's external appearance | Synonyms: neaten |
(verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, dress |
(verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: prepare, train |
groomed | (adjective) neat and smart in appearance; well cared for | - |
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grooming | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: dressing |
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(noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: preparation, training |
groomsman | (noun) a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding | - |
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groove | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: rut |
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(noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: vallecula |
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: channel |
(verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, rut |
(verb) make a groove in, or provide with a groove | - |
grooved | (adjective) established as if settled into a groove or rut | Synonyms: well-grooved |
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groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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groovy | (adjective) (British informal) very chic | Synonyms: swagger |
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(adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
grope | (noun) the act of groping; and instance of groping | - |
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(verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
(verb) fondle for sexual pleasure | - |
(verb) search blindly or uncertainly | - |
groping | (adjective) acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence | - |
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gropingly | (adverb) in an uncertain groping manner | - |
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grosbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grossbeak |
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groschen | (noun) 100 groschen equal 1 schilling in Austria | - |
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grosgrain | (noun) a silk or silklike fabric with crosswise ribs | - |
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gross | (adjective) before any deductions | - |
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(adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank |
(adjective) repellently fat | Synonyms: porcine |
(adjective) lacking fine distinctions or detail | - |
(adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: crude, earthy, vulgar |
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
(adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) | Synonyms: megascopic |
(noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: receipts, revenue |
(noun) twelve dozen | Synonyms: 144 |
(verb) earn before taxes, expenses, etc. | - |
grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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