hoary
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
hoary (comparative hoarier, superlative hoariest)
- White, whitish, or greyish-white.
- White or grey with age.
- The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.
- (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
- (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
- (obsolete) Remote in time past.
- (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
- Old or old-fashioned.
- (whitish) albescent, griseous, whity
- (white or grey with age) grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired; see also Thesaurus:elderly
- (old) aged, ancient, olden; see also Thesaurus:old
- (botany: covered with greyish-white hairs) canescent
- (remote in time past) bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past
- French: chenu
- German: altersgrau, asbach, uralt
- Italian: canuto
- Portuguese: grisalho
- Russian: седо́й
- Spanish: cano
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