greyed out

British

adjective

(of a navigation button, menu item, etc on a computer screen) not highlighted, indicating that the function is unavailable at a given time

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When Henderson's switch to Al-Ettifaq was announced, the club released a welcome video on social media with a montage of Henderson's career, but his rainbow armband had been greyed out.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

If you pick “Report a quality issue,” free-to-download apps are greyed out, with no way to click on them.

From The Verge • Sep. 3, 2021

Names that were greyed out indicated people who had been “wounded.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2017

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