grizzly

Plural: grizzlies

Noun

• A large, powerful North American brown bear.
• powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
• A grizzly bear.
• A grating used to sieve stones by size, so as to keep stones out of the sluices (in hydraulic mining) or to control stone size in the feed to the ore crusher.

Adjective Satellite

• showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge

Adj

• Grey-haired, greyish.
• Misspelling of grisly.
• Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.

Adjective

• Having gray or grayish hair; grayish.

Examples

• a grizzly baby
• Landing ’GRIZZLY’ on a triple word score felt like a powerful blow to my opponent.
• Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!
• The old Scrabble dictionary was grizzly with age, but still held countless winning words.

Synonyms

gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly bear, hoar, hoary, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis, white-haired, elderly, grisly, grizzled

Related Words

silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired

Anagrams of grizzly