Hoary

Adjective

 * 1) white or gray with age
 * The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.
 * 1) * 1787, John Rippon, "How Firm a Foundation":
 * And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
 * Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne.
 * 1)  of a pale silvery gray.
 * 2)  covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent
 * 3)  remote in time past
 * 4)  moldy; mossy; musty

Adverbs for Hoary
venerably; patriarchally; ripely; perfectly; snowily; gracefully; distinctly; majestically; gloriously; honorably; splendidly; conspicuously; grandly; nobly.

Synonyms for Hoary
gray, frosty, silvery, white, grizzled, old, aged, ancient, faded, venerable.

Antonyms for Hoary
dark, black, lustrous, young, virile, lusty.

Related terms

 * hoar

Derived terms

 * hoarily
 * hoariness

Thesaurus
acknowledged, admitted, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antique, argent, argentine, auld, canescent, chalky, conventional, cretaceous, customary, dateless, elderly, established, fixed, fleecy-white, folk, frost-beaded, frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent, frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty, frosty-faced, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoar, hoar-frosted, hoaryheaded, immemorial, inveterate, lactescent, legendary, lily-white, long-established, long-standing, marble, marmoreal, milky, mythological, niveous, of long standing, of old, of the folk, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-time, olden, oral, patriarchal, platinum, prescriptive, pure white, received, recognized, rime-frosted, rimed, rooted, senectuous, silver, silver-bearded, silver-headed, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, time-honored, timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, white, white as snow, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, worshipful, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

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