'Hoary' definitions:
Definition of 'hoary'
From: WordNet
adjective
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
adjective
Ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty]
adjective
Covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent, hoary]
Definition of 'Hoary'
From: GCIDE
- Hoary \Hoar"y\, a.
- 1. White or whitish. "The hoary willows." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. [1913 Webster]
- Reverence the hoary head. --Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. [1913 Webster]
- Hoary bat (Zool.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hoary'
From: Moby 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 history,
- old as Methuselah,
- 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