hoary
Adjective Satellite
- showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge
- "nodded his hoary head"
- ancient
- "hoary jokes"
- covered with fine whitish hairs or down
Adj
- White, whitish, or greyish-white.
- White or grey with age.
- Of a pale silvery grey.
- Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.
- Old or old-fashioned; trite.
- Remote in time past.
- Moldy; mossy; musty.
Adjective
- White or grayish, especially with age or frost.
Examples
- He found the word ’HOARY’ in the ancient dictionary, covered in a thin layer of dust.
- The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.
Origin / Etymology
Possibly from Middle English *hori (suggested by horilocket (“hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls”)), equivalent to hoar + -y. Alternatively, Middle English horilocket may represent Middle English hor (“hoar, hoary”) + ilocket (“locked”) rather than hori (“hoary”) + locket (“locked”).
Synonyms
canescent, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, rusty, white-haired, albescent, bygone, elder, elderly, foregone, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, griseous, grizzled, ivy-covered, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah, on in years, over the hill, preserved, senior, silver-haired, superannuated, whity, wintry
Scrabble Score: 11
hoary: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhoary: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hoary: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary