graying

adjective

gray·ing ˈgrā-iŋ

variants or less commonly greying

Synonyms of graying next

: becoming gray or dull in color

His … hat thumbed back to show a wide brow and a bristle of graying hair.—

Helen MacInnes

Other objects had been mounted according to kind on graying scraps of plywood, which leaned about the room—against bookshelves, in corners—like canvases about a painter's studio.—

Donovan Hohn

: having hair that is becoming gray : becoming older

Through heavy promotion and advertising directed at a graying population, the nutritious elixir has become a blockbuster seller …—

Michael J. McCarthy

As I wait to pay the cashier, secure in her glass booth, I glance back over the starkly lit room, the graying waiters, the regulars hunched over stacks of hotcakes.—

Javier Cabral

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Leng was in his early fifties, with a bowl cut of coarse graying hair. —

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 Holding the entire assemblage aloft in the graying Vienna morning was a 30-foot pair of collapsible hang glider wings. —

Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023 Bornstein’s graying hair was pushed back from his face, his eyes scanning the computer notes through dark-rimmed glasses. —

Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023 The dullness makes the one pop of color even more striking: The rainbow flag that hangs outside the home of Kei Okuda, a svelte 62-year-old with a sleek graying ponytail and a bold red lip. —

Julia Mio Inuma, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023 With its special anti-graying formula, this product is perfect for keeping delicate garments at their brightest and most vibrant. —

Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023 Our teacher was middle-aged and graying and German-born. —

Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022