Hoary

Definitions: Hoary

Hoary

Adjective

1. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head".

2. Ancient; "hoary jokes".

3. (biology) covered with fine whitish hairs or down.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hoary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Hoary

Age

Phrase: "give me a staff of honor for my age"; bis pueri senes; peu de gens savent elre vieux; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus; "old age is creeping on apace"; "slow-consuming age"'; "the hoary head is a crown of glory"; "the silver livery of advised age"; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks that Time has made".

Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.

Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time.

Crosswords: Hoary

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hoary": hoary age ♦ hoary alison ♦ hoary alyssum ♦ Hoary bat ♦ hoary golden bush ♦ hoary marmot ♦ hoary pea ♦ hoary plantain ♦ hoary puccoon ♦ hoary willow. Additional references.

Beginning with "hoary": hoary-headed.

Albanian

shumë i vjetër (centuries old), i zbardhur (chalky, discolored, discoloured), i thinjur (grey, grey headed, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, Hoar, white-headed), i lashtë (age-old, ancient, antique, early, grey, grey headed, Hoar, old, old world, primaeval, primeval, primordial). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قديم (ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, back, classic, classical, immemorial, obsolete, of long standing, old, old fashioned, old hand, old time, old timer, old-established, oldster, once, out of date, outdated, outmoded, primitive, quondam, sometime, stale, staleness, stock, superannuate, time honored, time worn, very old), ‏عتيق (age-old, ancient, fossil, musty, old, old fashioned, out of date, passe, prim, superannuated, time honored, time worn, used), ‏ذو أوراق زغبة, ‏أشيب (frosty, gray, grey, grizzly, hoar, white). (various references)

Bulgarian 

остарял (antiquated, dated, dead, extinct, grown old, moldy, moss-grown, mouldy, musty, obsolete, old, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe, played out, prehistoric, primitive, rusty, superannuated, worm-eaten), посивял (grey, grey haired, grizzled), почтен (clean, honest, honorable, honorary, honourable, law abiding, loyal, orderly, reputable, respectable, right, savoury, upright, upstanding, worthy), покрит с белезникави влакънца, побелял (frosty, grey, grey haired, grey headed, white, white-headed), древен (age-old, ancient, archaic, old, old world, olden, pristine, venerable). (various references)

Chinese 

白� � (hoary head, old age). (various references)

Czech

vousatý (bearded, whiskered, whiskery, with a mustache), starobylý (ancient, antique, time honored, time-honoured), bílý (Hoar, ivory white, white), šedivý (ashy-gray, dull, glaucous, gray haired, grey, grey haired, iron-grey, lifeless, miserable). (various references)

Danish

dugget (pruinose). (various references)

Dutch

berijpt (frosted, pruinose). (various references)

Farsi 

کهن (Ancient, Olden), سفیدمایل به خاکستری , سفید (Snowy), سالخورده (Elderly, Old, Senile). (various references)

Finnish

härmäinen (pruinose). (various references)

French

pruineux, couvert de duvet blanc, chenu (Hoar), éculée. (various references)

German

ergraut (Gray, grays, turns grey), altersgrau. (various references)

Greek 

σεβάσμιοσ (venerable), γηραιόσ, μαλλιαρός (hairy, pruinose, woolly), πανάρχαιοσ (primeval, world old), υπόλευκοσ (whitish). (various references)

Hebrew 

כסוף שער (gray haired, grey). (various references)

Hungarian

deres (dun, frosted, Hoar), fehér (blanch, blank, blaze, hoar, white), ősz (autumn, fall, frosted, grizzled, hoar, white), ősrégi (age-old, hoar, immemorial, of great antiquity, primaeval). (various references)

Indonesian

beruban (grizzled, whitethached). (various references)

Italian

venerabile (ancient, venerable, worshipful), pruinoso (pruinose), canuto (frosty, Hoar, white, white haired), brinato (frosted, pruinose, rimy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

霜�'置いた (frosted, gray). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しも�'おいた (frosted, gray). (various references)

Manx

lheeah (grey, grey- or white-haired, grey-headed, mould, musty, silver). (various references)

Norwegian

gråhåret. (various references)

Pig Latin

oaryhay

Portuguese

respeitável (accountable, dignified, estimate, properly, reputable, respectable, responsible, Reverend, rightdown, venerable, worshipful, worthy), grisalho (Gray, grey, greyhound, grid, grizzled, grizzly, white-headed), ficar rouco, branco (blank, European, Hoar, paleographer, virgin, white, white man). (various references)

Romanian

strãvechi (ancient, antique, dateless, immemorial, primitive, time worn), siv (Gray, grey), cenuşiu (ash-colored, ash-coloured, ashen, ashy, drab, Gray, grey, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, leaden, neutral), cãrunt (ancient, Gray, grey, grey haired, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, Hoar), bãtrân (aged, ancient, grey, grey headed, old, olden, senile), albit (bleaching, washing), albicios (albescent, canescent, whitish), albi (blanch, bleach, fade, gleam, grizzle, shimmer, wash, whiten, whitewash), alb (blank, clean, Hoar, pale face, unstained, white), acoperit cu puf (fluffy), încãrunţit (grey, grizzled). (various references)

Russian 

седой (grey, grey haired, grey headed, grizzle, grizzled, white hair, white-headed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sed (frosty, gray, grey, grey haired, grizzle, white hair), prastar (primeval). (various references)

Spanish

cano (grey haired). (various references)

Swedish

vördnadsvärd (Reverend), grå (dull, gloomy, gray, grey, grizzled, overcast, short finish), gammal (ancient, antique, elderly, long standing, longtime, old, old hat, olden, old-established, second hand, shaky, stale, well-established). (various references)

Thai

เก่าแก่ (old). (various references)

Turkish

yaşlı ve saygıdeğer (patriarchal), yaşlı başlı (Hoar), beyazlamış, ak saçlı (Hoar, white-haired), ağarmış (frosty, Hoar). (various references)

Ukranian 

стародавній (immemorial, of yore, old, old time, old world, venerable), старий (advanced, aged, age-old, ancient, auld, back, decrepit, dilapidated, grey headed, moth-eaten, old, old-aged, olden, ole, superannuated, used), сивий (grey, grey haired, grisly, grizzled, grizzly, white, white-haired, white-headed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bạc (silvery, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references)

Welsh

llwyd (brown, grey, Lloyd, pale). (various references)

antiquus, cana, canae, canam, cane, canens, canentem, canentes, canentium, cani, canis, cano, canos, canum, pruinosus. (various references)

har. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Hoary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boary, goary, hagry, halry, Haouaria, haray, hearby, hearye, Heery, heory, hikari, Hinari, hiry, hiryu, Hoagy, hoaky, hoara, hoare, hoarf, hoarg, hoari, hoars, hoart, Hoarty, hoaru, hoaxy, hogar, Hogarty, hogry, Hoiby, hoidy, Hoiy, homary, honary, honry, hoonry, hoorie, hoorty, hor, hora, horah, Horak, horan, horay, horgy, Horie, hormy, Horrey, Horry, Horty, hory, Horyn, houdy, Houria, houy, huar, Huari, Huayo, Huray, Joray, oary, ohay, ooearry, phwoar, Phwooar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ahoy, hoar, hora, hoya.

-2 letters: hao, hay, hoy, oar, ora, rah, ray, rho, rya, yah, yar.

-3 letters: ah, ar, ay, ha, ho, oh, or, oy, ya, yo.

+1 letter: hooray, horary.

+2 letters: atrophy, charpoy, harmony, hayfork, hoarily, hoorays, throaty.

+3 letters: charpoys, chorally, chronaxy, harlotry, hayforks, hoarsely, honorary, hoorayed, hydragog, hydrator, hyracoid, monarchy, myograph, nomarchy, nonhardy, octarchy, pyorrhea, rhapsody.

+4 letters: airworthy, anhydrous, apocrypha, athrocyte, authority, biography, cherimoya, chirimoya, coryphaei, diachrony, dysphoria, foolhardy, forsythia, geography, holidayer, honorably, hooraying, horseplay, hortatory, hybridoma, hydragogs, hydration, hydrators, hydrolase, hydrozoan, hyperbola, hyperopia, hyracoids, inharmony, kymograph, myographs, oligarchy, orography, overhasty, polygraph, polyhedra, porphyria, pyorrheas, scholarly, seaworthy, theocracy, throatily, throwaway, thyratron, thyroidal, typograph, xylograph.

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