Dictionary Entry
hoary
hoary is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: White or whitish. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
White or whitish.
- 2adjective
White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
- 3adjective
remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
- 4adjective
Moldy; mossy; musty.
- 5adjective
Of a pale silvery gray.
- 6adjective
Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
- 7adjective
covered with fine whitish hairs or down
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- 8adjective
ancient
"hoary jokes"
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- 9adjective
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair-Coleridge
"whose beard with age is hoar"
"nodded his hoary head"
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