hoar as a noun: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
hoar
noun
1 hoar
Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
synonyms: frost, hoarfrost, rime.
Dutch: vorst, rijm, rijp
Polish: mróz, szron
adjective
1 hoar
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair:
— Whose beard with age is hoar.
— Nodded his hoary head.
synonyms: gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoary, white-haired.
Roget 128:
aged;
old
etc.
124;
elderly,
geriatric,
senile;
matronly,
anile†;
in years;
ripe,
mellow,
run to seed,
declining,
waning,
past one's prime;
gray,
gray-headed;
hoar,
hoary;
venerable,
time-worn,
antiquated,
passe,
effete,
decrepit,
superannuated;
advanced in life,
advanced in years;
stricken in years;
wrinkled,
marked withthe crow's foot;
having one foot in the grave;
doting
etc.
(imbecile)
499;
like the last of pea time.
older,
elder,
eldest;
senior;
firstborn.
turned of,
years old;
of a certain age,
no chicken,
old as Methuselah;
ancestral,
patriarchal,
etc.
(ancient)
124;
gerontic.
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Roget 430:
white;
milk-white,
snow-white;
snowy;
niveous†,
candid,
chalky;
hoar,
hoary;
silvery;
argent,
argentine;
canescent†,
cretaceous,
lactescent†.
whitish,
creamy,
pearly,
fair,
blond;
blanched
etc.
v.;
high in tone,
light.
white as a sheet,
white as driven snow,
white as a lily,
white as silver;
like ivory
etc.
n..
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Polish: posiwiały, przyprószony siwizną, siwy, osiwiały, zsiwiały
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