Hoary

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  • adjective. Gray or white with or as if with age.
  • adjective. Covered with grayish hair or pubescence.
  • adjective. So old as to inspire veneration; ancient.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. White or whitish.
  • adjective. White or gray with age; hoar.
  • adjective. remote in time past.
  • adjective. Moldy; mossy; musty.
  • adjective. Of a pale silvery gray.
  • adjective. Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
  • adjective. an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. white or gray with age
  • adjective. of a pale silvery gray.
  • adjective. covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent
  • adjective. remote in time past
  • adjective. moldy; mossy; musty
  • adjective. old, or old-fashioned
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. ancient
  • adjective. covered with fine whitish hairs or down
  • adjective. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
  • Word Usage
    "If the inheritors of the future someday find quaint the idea that feminism once advanced the goals for women of reproductive rights, health care access, and cultural and legal equality of opportunity, and the F-word's future definition instead represents aspirational female success within hoary notions of gendered expectations and opportunities ... well, that would be unfortunate."
    Equivalent
    haired  hairy  hirsute  old  
    Form
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Corey  Corrie  Cory  Dorey  Dorrie  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ancestral  bushy  cloudy  craggy  dusky  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    hoarier  hoariest