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

1. adjective. White or whitish.
2. adjective. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
3. adjective. remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. adjective. Moldy; mossy; musty.
5. adjective. Of a pale silvery gray.
6. adjective. Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
7. adjective. covered with fine whitish hairs or down

   Synonyms: canescent

8. adjective. ancient

   "hoary jokes"

   Synonyms: rusty

9. adjective. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair-Coleridge

   "whose beard with age is hoar"

   "nodded his hoary head"

   Synonyms: gray, grey, grizzly, hoar

Synonyms

canescent, rusty, gray, grey, grizzly, hoar

Common word forms

hoarier, hoarily, hoariest

Words from these letters

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