Hoary

Quick meaning: Hoary is an adjective meaning White, whitish, or greyish-white.

Meaning

White, whitish, or greyish-white.

More Meanings

1. White or grey with age.
2. (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
3. (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.
4. (figurative) Old or old-fashioned; trite.
5. (obsolete) Remote in time past.
6. (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.

Example Sentences

The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.

And ever and anon a silent tear Stole down, and trickled from his hoary beard.

As hoary frost with spangles doth attire, The mossy braunches of an oke halfe ded,

But hoary Winter, unadorn'd and bare, Dwells in the dire Retreat, and freezes there.

Word Forms

• hoarier
• hoariest

Synonyms for hoary

Depending on context, synonyms include albescent, griseous, whity, whitish, grey-haired, grizzled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include canescent, white-haired, hoar, grey-haired, gray-headed, gray-haired.

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