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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, ... show more

Roget 430: white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous, candid, chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent, cretaceous, ... show more

Polish: posiwiały, przyprószony siwizną, siwy, osiwiały, zsiwiały


Moby thesaurus: Jack Frost, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, argent, argentine, black frost, canescent, chalky, cretaceous, elderly, fleecy-white, frost, frost line, frost smoke, frosted, frosty ... show more.

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