hoary

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
hoarier
Superlative
hoariest
  1. 1.

    White, whitish, or greyish-white.

    Đồng nghĩa: albescent, griseous, whity, gray / grey, grayey / greyey, grayish / greyish, griseous, grisescent, hoary, albescent, hoary, whitish, whity

  2. 2.

    White or grey with age.

    The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.

    Đồng nghĩa: 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, grizzled, grizzly, hoary, mouldy, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired

  3. 3.

    (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.

  4. 4.

    (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.

    Đồng nghĩa: canescent

  5. 5.

    (figuratively)(figurative) Old or old-fashioned; trite.

    Đồng nghĩa: antediluvian, superseded, clichéd, played out, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backward, backwards, behind the times, cobwebbed, cobwebby,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Havishamesque, hoary, idle, Miss Havishamesque, mouldy, obsolete, old, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old school, outdated, outmoded, out of date, out of fashion, outworn, parachronistic, passé, primitive, superannuated, superseded, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, workless, banal, bathetic, bromidic, cheesy, clichéd, commonplace, corny, dog-eared, hackneyed, hoary, overdone, overused, overworked, pat, played out, shopworn, stale, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, warmed-over, well-worn

  6. 6.

    (obsolete)Remote in time past.

    Đồng nghĩa: bygone, foregone, backward, bygone, foregone, forepassed, forepast, historic, historical, hoary, long ago, olden, past, preterite

  7. 7.

    (obsolete)Moldy; mossy; musty.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

Possibly from Middle English *hori (suggested by horilocket (hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls)), equivalent to hoar + -y. Alternatively, horilocket may represent hor (hoar, hoary) + ilocket (locked) rather than hori (hoary) + locket (locked).

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, wiktionary · cập nhật 14/8/2026

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