Hoary

Word HOARY
Character 5
Hyphenation hoar y
Pronunciations /hɔː.ɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Hoary"

What do we mean by hoary?

Gray or white with or as if with age. adjective

Covered with grayish hair or pubescence. adjective

So old as to inspire veneration; ancient. adjective

White or whitish.

White or gray with age: as, hoary hairs.

Figuratively, remote in time past: as, hoary antiquity.

4. Musty; moldy: as, hoary bread.

In botany and entomology, covered with short, dense, grayish-white hairs; canescent.

White or whitish. adjective

White or gray with age; hoar. adjective

Remote in time past. adjective

Moldy; mossy; musty. adjective

Of a pale silvery gray. adjective

Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. adjective

An American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white. adjective

White or gray with age adjective

Of a pale silvery gray. adjective

Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent adjective

Remote in time past adjective

Moldy; mossy; musty adjective

White, whitish, or greyish-white.

White or grey with age.

Of a pale silvery grey.

Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.

Remote in time past.

Moldy; mossy; musty.

Old or old-fashioned.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Hoary

The word "hoary" in example sentences

If the inheritors of the future someday find quaint the idea that feminism once advanced the goals for women of reproductive rights, health care access, and cultural and legal equality of opportunity, and the F-word's future definition instead represents aspirational female success within hoary notions of gendered expectations and opportunities ... well, that would be unfortunate. ❋ AJ Rossmiller (2010)

Since 9/11, Pipes has become notorious for trafficking in hoary old Orientalist stereotypes in order to stoke Americans’ prejudice against, and fear of, Islam. ❋ Unknown (2009)

People are bowing in the presence of what they suppose to be the antiquity, that is, the hoary-headed wisdom, of the world. ❋ Unknown (1879)

It hushes the infant to its slumbers in the cradle with a song whose theme is the babe of Bethlehem; it allures the child to virtue by the example of Josiah, Timothy, and Samuel; it warns the wayward youth, and reproves the erring man, and calls the hoary sinner to repentance. ❋ S.C. 1862: Columbia (1862)

Finally, Mr. ARTHUR HATHERTON, as _Lob_, the host of the party, a kind of hoary old _Puck_ who had a _penchant_ for filling his house every ❋ Various (N/A)

The leaves of the willow are, in fact, white underneath, and it is this part of them which would appear "hoary" in the reflection in the brook. ❋ William Hazlitt (1804)

The "hoary" (to borrow a word) chestnut that it takes a big man to apologize was floated. ❋ SHG (2010)

That "hoary" ancestor evolved into "hoar," a synonym of "ancient" that has been part of our language since before the 12th century. ❋ Unknown (2009)

British novelist John Galsworthy knew the value of preserving the past -- and he would likely have counted "hoary" among those old things worth saving. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They've invoked the hoary doctrine of nullification, the notion laid out by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison that a state can reject, or nullify, a federal law. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Just how old, just how hoary, just how venerable does a book or a movie have to be before it can be spoken about in public without someone shutting you up about spoilers? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Marcus is employing a hoary trope, the Jew as Metaphor—in this case, as a carrier of an ancient language with potential quasi-Kabbalistic powers. ❋ Sam Sacks (2012)

The people who made it know we already know the hoary plot: There's a competition, they'll win the semifinals, then they'll go from their humble town in rural Georgia to glamorous Los Angeles and win the finals, though not without some cliffhanging complications. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2012)

And at the risk of further alienating respected colleagues and groups, do the hoary lessons of democratic transition and consolidation--particularly in the Southern Cone--which we all read and absorbed as undergraduate and graduate students still apply? ❋ Christopher Sabatini (2011)

Nicholas Hythe is still coming up against those hoary old chestnuts that so vexed our members all that time ago -- barriers to growth. ❋ Kieron Hayes (2011)

A hoary truism: You don't want to be the guy replacing the legend. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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