Hoary synonyms
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Having reached the age of:
Belonging to, made in, or typical of an earlier period:
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.)
canescent
(Biology) Covered with short, fine whitish or grayish hairs or down; hoary.
No longer fashionable.
Relating to older people.
Hackneyed; trite
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
Producing frost or cold enough to produce frost; freezing
Very old; having existed for a long time; ancient or well-established
Aantediluvian in the Bible, is defined as someone or something from the time before the Great Flood.
Aged
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.
Of, like, or characteristic of past times
old as Methuselah
old-as-the-hills
new (related)
Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
Consisting of or produced by rust.
Having grey hair, usually implying old
Hence, figuratively, old, wise, experienced.
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge
Old
Grayish; grizzled
(Informal) fair-haired
silver-bearded
silver-headed
gnarled (related)
hag (related)
dwarfish (related)
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