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Hoary Common

Hoary has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

"whose beard with age is hoar"

"nodded his hoary head"

2

ancient

"hoary jokes"

3

covered with fine whitish hairs or down

4

White, whitish, or greyish-white.

Example Sentences
"whose beard with age is hoar" adjective
"nodded his hoary head" adjective
"hoary jokes" adjective
See Also
canescent gray hoared incanous old fashioned incanescent hoar old
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
ary bary vary mary dary gary cary wary nary fary viary neary weary spary ovary snary teary leary beary shary
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