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hoary
adjective
(hoar-y)
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Synonyms:
gray
, gray-haired, gray-headed,
grey
, grey-haired, grey-headed,
grizzly
,
hoar
, white-haired,
Examples:
Nodded his hoary head.
hoary
adjective
(hoar-y)
ancient
Synonyms:
rusty
,
Examples:
Hoary jokes.
hoary
adjective
(hoar-y)
covered with fine whitish hairs or down
Synonyms:
canescent
,
Words Related to
hoary
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hirsute
,
old
,
gray
,
hairy
,
rusty
,
hoar
,
grey
,
canescent
,
gray-haired
,
gray-headed
,
grey-haired
,
grey-headed
,
white-haired
,
aged
,
hackneyed
,
shopworn
,
archaic
,
fusty
,
creaky
,
timeworn
,
trite
,
musty
,
wizened
,
cliched
,
threadbare
,
outdated
,
leaden
,
pallid
,
antediluvian
,
incanescent
,
anachronistic
,
doddering
,
incanous
,
outworn
,
bygone
,
outmoded
,
superannuated
,
cobwebbed
,
stale
,
antiquated
,
overfamiliar
,
fatuous
,
venerable
,
jocose
,
hoared
,
silly
,
apocryphal
,
sententious
,
hokey
,
olde
,
specious
,
vestigial
,
pythonesque
,
daft
,
dopey
,
substanceless
,
deathless
,
wheezy
,
lame
,
senile
,
chivalric
,
pseudo
,
classic
,
tiresome
,
sophoclean
,
doleful
,
stodgy
,
deader
,
bathetic
,
unpoetic
,
crotchety
,
whiskery
,
atavistic
,
fangled
,
archetypal
,
teutonic
,
baleful
,
lachrymose
,
whiggish
,
oldish
,
quaint
,
feeble
,
unvarying
,
mirthless
,
dunderheaded
,
jejune
,
postfeminist
,
curmudgeonly
,
soporific
,
fuddy
,
jamesian
,
ponderous
,
etymological
,
fuddled
,
gimcrack
,
benighted
,
witless
,
sophistic
,
spavined
,
sesquipedalian
,
hoary
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