Hoary synonyms

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ancient
Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
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aged
Having reached the age of:
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antique
Belonging to, made in, or typical of an earlier period:
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old (related)
A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
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white
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
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frosty
Producing frost or cold enough to produce frost; freezing
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rimy
Coated in rime.
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age-old
Very old; having existed for a long time; ancient or well-established
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antediluvian
Aantediluvian in the Bible, is defined as someone or something from the time before the Great Flood.
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antiquated
Aged
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archaic
Relating to, being, or characteristic of words and language that were once in regular use but are now relatively rare and suggestive of an earlier style or period.
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olden
From or relating to a previous era.
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old-time
Of, like, or characteristic of past times
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old as Methuselah
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old-as-the-hills
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new (related)
Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
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canescent
(Biology) Covered with short, fine whitish or grayish hairs or down; hoary.
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rusty
Consisting of or produced by rust.
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grey
(Chiefly UK, Australia and Canada, alternative in US) Alternative form of gray.
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gray
Having gray hair; hoary.
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grey-haired
Having grey hair, usually implying old
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gray-haired
Hence, figuratively, old, wise, experienced.
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grey-headed
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge
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gray-headed
Old
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grizzly
Grayish; grizzled
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hoar
Hoary
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white-haired
(Informal) fair-haired
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silver-bearded
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silver-headed
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gnarled (related)
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hag (related)
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dwarfish (related)
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dated
No longer fashionable.
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timeworn
Hackneyed; trite
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Hoary Sentence Examples

  • It has clusters of blue flowers and hoary leaves.

  • The general colour is deep liver-brown, silvered or frosted with the hoary tips of the longer stiff hairs.

  • From one point of view they shadow out the great epic of the destinies of the human race; again, the universal solar myth claims a share in them; hoary traditions were brought into ex post facto connexion with them; or they served to commemorate simple meteorological and astronomical facts.

  • How quickly I should lock up all these mighty warriors, and hoary sages, and impossible heroes, who are now almost my only companions; and dance and sing and frolic like other girls!

  • Before he had found a stock in all respects suitable the city of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick.

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