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Adjective hoary has 3 senses
- gray, grey, gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired - showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
Antonyms: young, immature (indirect, via old)
- hoary, rusty - ancient; "hoary jokes"
Antonym: new (indirect, via old)
- canescent, hoary - covered with fine whitish hairs or down
Antonym: hairless (indirect, via hairy)
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