Rainy Day Hue Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "GRAY" which means:

noun
• • A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
• • English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the si unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
• • Clothing that is a grey color
• • English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
• • Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
• • American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the columbia river (1755-1806)
• • Horse of a light gray or whitish color
• • United states botanist who specialized in north american flora and who was an early supporter of darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
• • The si unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad
adjective satellite
• • Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
• • Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
• • Used to signify the confederate forces in the american civil war (who wore grey uniforms)
• • Intermediate in character or position
verb
• • Make grey
• • Turn grey
adjective
• • Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
• • Dreary, gloomy.
• • Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
• • Relating to older people.

An example sentence would be:

• • "I bought a new gray sweater."
• • "The sky turned gray after the rain stopped."

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