hoary

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hoary Definition

• (s) showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
• (s) ancient; "hoary jokes"
• (s) covered with fine whitish hairs or down

hoary Synonyms

• canescent
• gray
• gray-haired
• gray-headed
• grey
• grey-haired
• grey-headed
• grizzly
• hoar
• hoary
• rusty
• white-haired