hoary 音标拼音: [h'ɔri]
a . 灰白的
灰白的
hoary adj 1 :
showing characteristics of age ,
especially having grey or white hair ; "
whose beard with age is hoar "-
Coleridge ;
"
nodded his hoary head " [
synonym : {
grey }, {
gray }, {
grey -
haired }, {
gray -
haired }, {
grey -
headed }, {
gray -
headed },
{
grizzly }, {
hoar }, {
hoary }, {
white -
haired }]
2 :
ancient ; "
hoary jokes " [
synonym : {
hoary }, {
rusty }]
3 :
covered with fine whitish hairs or down [
synonym : {
canescent },
{
hoary }]
Hoary \
Hoar "
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a .
1 .
White or whitish . "
The hoary willows ." --
Addison .
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2 .
White or gray with age ;
hoar ;
as ,
hoary hairs .
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Reverence the hoary head . --
Dr .
T .
Dwight .
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3 .
Hence ,
remote in time past ;
as ,
hoary antiquity .
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4 .
Moldy ;
mossy ;
musty . [
Obs .] --
Knolles .
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5 . (
Zool .)
Of a pale silvery gray .
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6 . (
Bot .)
Covered with short ,
dense ,
grayish white hairs ;
canescent .
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{
Hoary bat } (
Zool .),
an American bat ({
Atalapha cinerea }),
having the hair yellowish ,
or brown ,
tipped with white .
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "
hoary ":
acknowledged ,
admitted ,
advanced ,
advanced in life ,
advanced in years ,
age -
old ,
aged ,
ageless ,
along in years ,
ancient ,
antediluvian ,
antique ,
argent ,
argentine ,
auld ,
canescent ,
chalky ,
conventional ,
cretaceous ,
customary ,
dateless ,
elderly ,
established ,
fixed ,
fleecy -
white ,
folk ,
frost -
beaded ,
frost -
chequered ,
frost -
covered ,
frost -
fettered ,
frost -
rent ,
frostbound ,
frosted ,
frostlike ,
frosty ,
frosty -
faced ,
gray ,
gray with age ,
gray -
haired ,
gray -
headed ,
grizzled ,
grizzly ,
grown old ,
hallowed ,
handed down ,
heroic ,
hoar ,
hoar -
frosted ,
hoaryheaded ,
immemorial ,
inveterate ,
lactescent ,
legendary ,
lily -
white ,
long -
established ,
long -
standing ,
marble ,
marmoreal ,
milky ,
mythological ,
niveous ,
of long standing ,
of old ,
of the folk ,
of yore ,
old ,
old as Methuselah ,
old as history ,
old as time ,
old -
time ,
olden ,
oral ,
patriarchal ,
platinum ,
prescriptive ,
pure white ,
received ,
recognized ,
rime -
frosted ,
rimed ,
rooted ,
senectuous ,
silver ,
silver -
bearded ,
silver -
headed ,
silvered ,
silvery ,
snow -
white ,
snowy ,
swan -
white ,
time -
honored ,
timeless ,
timeworn ,
traditional ,
tried and true ,
true -
blue ,
understood ,
unwritten ,
venerable ,
white ,
white as snow ,
white with age ,
white -
bearded ,
white -
crowned ,
white -
haired ,
worshipful ,
wrinkled ,
wrinkly ,
years old
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