English

Alternative forms

• gray area (US)

Noun

grey area ‎(plural grey areas)

1. (idiomatic) An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy.

   It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal.

2. (idiomatic) A topic that is not clearly one thing or the other, that is open to interpretation.
   • 2007, May, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 4, page 94:

     Fame is a grey area[.]

Synonyms

• (an area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories): penumbra

Translations

See also

• black and white
• fall between two stools