hoary English

Meaning hoary meaning

What does hoary mean?

hoary

— adjective ancient hoary jokes

— adjective (= canescent) covered with fine whitish hairs or down

— adjective (= grey, gray, hoar) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair whose beard with age is hoar — Coleridge nodded his hoary head

Synonyms hoary synonyms

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grey

white

hoar

gray

grey-headed

grey-haired

gray-haired

canescent

ancient

grizzly

gray-headed

white-haired

rusty

old

frosted

aged

world old

whitish

vinnewed

venerable

time-honoured

primeval

musty

mouldy

moldy

longstanding

leuekotrichious

leafless with age

immemorial

hoary haired

hoared

grizzled

greyish

gray-bearded

frosty

frostiness

fossilised

august

age-old

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Gray

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