gray area

1. 1.

   an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other

   Synonymsgrey area

   Broaderarea

Questions about gray area

What does gray area mean?

gray area means "an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other".

What is another word for gray area?

Close synonyms include grey area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gray area a common word?

gray area is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.