Hoary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Gray or white with or as if with age.
  • adj. Covered with grayish hair or pubescence: hoary leaves.
  • adj. So old as to inspire veneration; ancient.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. white or gray with age
  • adj. of a pale silvery gray.
  • adj. covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent
  • adj. remote in time past
  • adj. moldy; mossy; musty
  • adj. old, or old-fashioned
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. White or whitish.
  • adj. White or gray with age; hoar.
  • adj. remote in time past.
  • adj. Moldy; mossy; musty.
  • adj. Of a pale silvery gray.
  • adj. Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • White or whitish.
  • White or gray with age: as, hoary hairs.
  • Figuratively, remote in time past: as, hoary antiquity.
  • 4. Musty; moldy: as, hoary bread.
  • In botany and entomology, covered with short, dense, grayish-white hairs; canescent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. ancient
  • adj. covered with fine whitish hairs or down
  • adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
  • Equivalent
    old    hairy    haired    hirsute   
    Variant
    hoarier    hoariest   
    Form
    hoariness    hoarily   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hoar    moldy    mossy    musty    canescent   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Corey    Corrie    Cory    Dorey    Dorrie    Florey    Florrie    Flory    Gorey    Korey   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    venerable    snowy    shaggy    silvery    shadowy    craggy    kingly    majestic    bushy    mossy