Standard Lemma guide

gray-headed

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having gray hair, especially from age

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gray-haired, grizzled, grizzly, gray / grey, gray-headed / grey-headed, grey-haired / gray-haired, grisly, hoary, mouldy, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • whose beard with age is hoar
  • nodded his hoary head

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.