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adj
White, whitish, or greyish-white.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: albescent, griseous, whity, gray / grey, grayey / greyey, grayish / greyish, grisescent, hoary, whitish
Antonyms: none provided
adj
White or grey with age.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, white-haired, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah, on in years, over the hill, senior, superannuated, ivy-covered, preserved, wintry, gray / grey, gray-headed / grey-headed, grey-haired / gray-haired, grisly, hoary, mouldy, silvery-haired
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a pale silvery grey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: canescent
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Old or old-fashioned; trite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: antediluvian, superseded, clichéd, played out, anachronistic, antediluvial, antiquated, antique, archaic, backward, backwards, behind the times, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dated, defunct, desuete, discontinued, disused, dootsie, elderly, extinct, expired, fossilized, Havishamesque, hoary, idle, Miss Havishamesque, mouldy, obsolete, old, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old school, outdated, outmoded, out of date, out of fashion, outworn, parachronistic, passé, primitive, superannuated, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, workless, banal, bathetic, bromidic, cheesy, stock, commonplace, corny, dog-eared, hackneyed, overdone, overused, overworked, pat, shopworn, stale, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, warmed-over, well-worn
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Remote in time past.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bygone, foregone, backward, forepassed, forepast, historic, historical, hoary, long ago, olden, past, preterite
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Moldy; mossy; musty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blighted, moldering, gone bad, spoiled, cankered, decayed, dotterel, forworn, rotten, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrescent, putrid, bad, gone off, maggoted
adjective satellite
covered with fine whitish hairs or down
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: canescent
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
ancient
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rusty
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair-Coleridge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, white-haired
Antonyms: none provided
History
Possibly from Middle English *hori (suggested by horilocket (“hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls”)), equivalent to hoar + -y. Alternatively, Middle English horilocket may represent Middle English hor (“hoar, hoary”) + ilocket (“locked”) rather than hori (“hoary”) + locket (“locked”).
Across languages
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
