grey areanoun [ C usually singular ]
US usually gray area uk/ˌɡreɪ ˈeə.ri.ə/us/ˌɡreɪ ˈer.i.ə/a situation that is not clear or where the rules are not known:
The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unconfirmed
- vague
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