Definition of hoary in English:

hoary

adjectivehoariest, hoarier ˈhɔːriˈhɔri

1Greyish white.
hoary cobwebs
Example sentencesExamples
- Already topping hoary hair the man was not someone that attracted attention, nor did he hold the commanding aura that previous councillors of his seat demanded.
- For blossoming from this scoundrel's chin was a hoary beard of such robustness and grooming that it called to mind a cloud brought to the shape of a man's face by the Lord himself.
- The painstakingly raised and restored Vasa and Mary Rose, favourites of Kings Gustavus Adolphus and Henry VIII respectively, are threatened by a chemical reaction as their hoary old timbers dry out.
- The Fifth Commandment of the Bible reminds us to honor our fathers and mothers and to ‘rise up before the hoary head of the old man, to pay respect to the elders of the tribe’.
- They had long been sailing west upon their expeditious and stead ship, the sun had now sat upon her throne, and her red and gold stallions that drew her chariot pranced among the hoary clouds.
- Deep within the second month, when hoary frost braces the ground,
- What I guessed to be a hawk's feather hung from the back of his skull, probably tied there by a short leather thong attached to his hoary mane.
- While some WWII casualties have been salvaged, many of the wrecks that litter the unique Rock Island eco-system are full of marine life and hoary artefacts.
- Eric gazed into the small, hoary, glass-like balls.
- And even if you could never bring yourself to back England, there is some good news - now they've finally won a World Cup, those hoary old pictures of the 1966 final might finally get put to the back of the cupboard.
Synonyms
greyish-white, grey, white, silver, silvery
frost-covered, frosty, rimy
1. 1.1 (of a person) old and having grey or white hair.
  a hoary old fellow with a face of white stubble
  Example sentencesExamples
  He stands to guide me to the door, then stops to point out a photo of himself looking somewhat starstruck and goofy-grinned beside four hoary men, his mayoral predecessors.
  Dropping the pencil abruptly, she looks up at her hoary teacher, ‘Ma'am?’
  He was that old, hoary kind of Fleet Street hack with newsprint-stained fingers.
  Popular impressions of the British soldier during the Georgian era continue to be dominated by hoary stereotypes.
  No, what's really disturbing about the whole phenomenon is the emergence of a new breed of hoary old pop marketing men who don't even feel the need to pretend they are anything else.
  Synonyms
  elderly, aged, old, getting on, ancient, venerable, long in the tooth, of an advanced age, advanced in years
  grey-haired, white-haired, silver-haired, silvery-haired, grizzled, grizzly
  informal past it, over the hill
  rare longevous, senescent
2. 1.2attributive Used in names of animals and plants covered with whitish fur or short hairs, e.g. hoary bat, hoary cress.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The islands' biggest native mammal is the hoary bat.
  Ross reported that 136 of 139 stomachs of hoary bats from New Mexico contained moths; flying ants were in 9 bats.
  Ms Lloyd said hoary cress had an extensive root system that choked grain and horticulture crops and pastures.
  No amphibian or terrestrial reptile, and only one terrestrial mammal, the hoary bat, completed the journey on its own.
  Songbirds also live here, including the snow bunting, raven, American tree sparrow, and hoary redpoll.
  Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.
  The refuse dump-sewage lagoons had the largest numbers of waterfowl, herring gulls, and hoary redpolls, but the lowest diversity index.
  The endangered Hawaiian hoary bat also roosts there.
  Strange birds made ominous sounds, and small scurrying creatures fled into the protection of the hoary underbrush.
  Hawaii may have no native terrestrial mammals, but the islands do harbor one native aquatic mammal, the monk seal, and one native flying mammal, the hoary bat.
2Overused and unoriginal; trite.
the hoary old adage often used by Fleet Street editors
Example sentencesExamples
- As the hoary old chestnut goes, we take our freedom for granted.
- Better late than never’ is one of those hoary aphorisms hauled out by those who prefer soundbites to scrutiny.
- To argue that the legal ownership of firearms by the citizens are a source for criminals is a hoary old story that has been disproved over hundreds of years.
- Can we just agree on that, and never see these hoary and overused devices again?
- His workplace relations minister begrudges a modest pay rise for the lowly paid, trotting out the hoary old chestnut that better pay costs jobs.
- His jokes may be hoary, but the glint in his eye is youthful; the footwork may be on the weather-beaten side, but his welcoming smirk is ageless.
- Like the hoary old cliché, ‘Oh, I only watch the documentaries on TV not those dreadful soaps!’
- It is an odd moment for parents when their children's answers to that hoary old question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’
- My other hope is that all the Councillors will move beyond their personal interests and hoary old arguments to support the Mayor and an outcome that is the only feasible option for Lismore.
Synonyms
trite, hackneyed, clichéd, banal, platitudinous, vapid, ordinary, commonplace, common, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, time-worn, tired, threadbare, hack, unimaginative, unoriginal, derivative, uninspired, prosaic, routine, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill
informal old hat, corny, hacky, played out
North American informal cornball, dime-store
rare truistic, bromidic

Derivatives

hoarily

adverb

However, I'm going to scream if I see one more hoarily unfunny "joke".
Example sentencesExamples
- That said, to pretend that rises in salaries have been accompanied in inverse proportion by a decline in manners and honesty is to buy into the hoarily romantic old theory, and wholly unproveable assumption, that previous generations were more honourable.

hoariness

noun ˈhɔːrɪnəsˈhɔrinəs

Their broad leaves instead of appearing glossy and green as usual, now are dusted with pale, silvery hoariness.
Example sentencesExamples
- The hoariness of the adage does not reduce its truth.
- As the season advances this hoariness increases, and towards the end of the summer the undersides of some of the branches are invested with a thick downy substance, so long as at times to be sensibly agitated by the air.
- My interest in this isn't to mock newspapers for their hoariness.
- Surely my bones are weakened and my head flares with hoariness!

Rhymes

cacciatore, Corey, dory, Florey, flory, furore, glory, gory, hunky-dory, lory, Maury, monsignori, Montessori, multistorey, Pori, Rory, satori, saury, storey, story, Tory, vainglory

Definition of hoary in US English:

hoary

adjectiveˈhôrēˈhɔri

1Grayish white.
hoary cobwebs
Example sentencesExamples
- The Fifth Commandment of the Bible reminds us to honor our fathers and mothers and to ‘rise up before the hoary head of the old man, to pay respect to the elders of the tribe’.
- Already topping hoary hair the man was not someone that attracted attention, nor did he hold the commanding aura that previous councillors of his seat demanded.
- Eric gazed into the small, hoary, glass-like balls.
- They had long been sailing west upon their expeditious and stead ship, the sun had now sat upon her throne, and her red and gold stallions that drew her chariot pranced among the hoary clouds.
- For blossoming from this scoundrel's chin was a hoary beard of such robustness and grooming that it called to mind a cloud brought to the shape of a man's face by the Lord himself.
- While some WWII casualties have been salvaged, many of the wrecks that litter the unique Rock Island eco-system are full of marine life and hoary artefacts.
- Deep within the second month, when hoary frost braces the ground,
- The painstakingly raised and restored Vasa and Mary Rose, favourites of Kings Gustavus Adolphus and Henry VIII respectively, are threatened by a chemical reaction as their hoary old timbers dry out.
- What I guessed to be a hawk's feather hung from the back of his skull, probably tied there by a short leather thong attached to his hoary mane.
- And even if you could never bring yourself to back England, there is some good news - now they've finally won a World Cup, those hoary old pictures of the 1966 final might finally get put to the back of the cupboard.
Synonyms
greyish-white, grey, white, silver, silvery
1. 1.1 (of a person) having gray or white hair; aged.
  a hoary old fellow with a face of white stubble
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dropping the pencil abruptly, she looks up at her hoary teacher, ‘Ma'am?’
  He was that old, hoary kind of Fleet Street hack with newsprint-stained fingers.
  No, what's really disturbing about the whole phenomenon is the emergence of a new breed of hoary old pop marketing men who don't even feel the need to pretend they are anything else.
  He stands to guide me to the door, then stops to point out a photo of himself looking somewhat starstruck and goofy-grinned beside four hoary men, his mayoral predecessors.
  Popular impressions of the British soldier during the Georgian era continue to be dominated by hoary stereotypes.
  Synonyms
  elderly, aged, old, getting on, ancient, venerable, long in the tooth, of an advanced age, advanced in years
2. 1.2attributive Used in names of animals and plants covered with whitish fur or short hairs, e.g. hoary bat, hoary cress.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The endangered Hawaiian hoary bat also roosts there.
  Ms Lloyd said hoary cress had an extensive root system that choked grain and horticulture crops and pastures.
  No amphibian or terrestrial reptile, and only one terrestrial mammal, the hoary bat, completed the journey on its own.
  Ross reported that 136 of 139 stomachs of hoary bats from New Mexico contained moths; flying ants were in 9 bats.
  Songbirds also live here, including the snow bunting, raven, American tree sparrow, and hoary redpoll.
  Strange birds made ominous sounds, and small scurrying creatures fled into the protection of the hoary underbrush.
  The refuse dump-sewage lagoons had the largest numbers of waterfowl, herring gulls, and hoary redpolls, but the lowest diversity index.
  Hawaii may have no native terrestrial mammals, but the islands do harbor one native aquatic mammal, the monk seal, and one native flying mammal, the hoary bat.
  Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.
  The islands' biggest native mammal is the hoary bat.
2Old and trite.
that hoary American notion that bigger is better
Example sentencesExamples
- His jokes may be hoary, but the glint in his eye is youthful; the footwork may be on the weather-beaten side, but his welcoming smirk is ageless.
- It is an odd moment for parents when their children's answers to that hoary old question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’
- To argue that the legal ownership of firearms by the citizens are a source for criminals is a hoary old story that has been disproved over hundreds of years.
- Better late than never’ is one of those hoary aphorisms hauled out by those who prefer soundbites to scrutiny.
- His workplace relations minister begrudges a modest pay rise for the lowly paid, trotting out the hoary old chestnut that better pay costs jobs.
- Like the hoary old cliché, ‘Oh, I only watch the documentaries on TV not those dreadful soaps!’
- My other hope is that all the Councillors will move beyond their personal interests and hoary old arguments to support the Mayor and an outcome that is the only feasible option for Lismore.
- As the hoary old chestnut goes, we take our freedom for granted.
- Can we just agree on that, and never see these hoary and overused devices again?
Synonyms
trite, hackneyed, clichéd, banal, platitudinous, vapid, ordinary, commonplace, common, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, time-worn, tired, threadbare, hack, unimaginative, unoriginal, derivative, uninspired, prosaic, routine, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill

单词	hoary
释义	Definition of hoary in English: hoary adjectivehoariest, hoarier ˈhɔːriˈhɔri 1Greyish white. hoary cobwebs Example sentencesExamples Already topping hoary hair the man was not someone that attracted attention, nor did he hold the commanding aura that previous councillors of his seat demanded. For blossoming from this scoundrel's chin was a hoary beard of such robustness and grooming that it called to mind a cloud brought to the shape of a man's face by the Lord himself. The painstakingly raised and restored Vasa and Mary Rose, favourites of Kings Gustavus Adolphus and Henry VIII respectively, are threatened by a chemical reaction as their hoary old timbers dry out. The Fifth Commandment of the Bible reminds us to honor our fathers and mothers and to ‘rise up before the hoary head of the old man, to pay respect to the elders of the tribe’. They had long been sailing west upon their expeditious and stead ship, the sun had now sat upon her throne, and her red and gold stallions that drew her chariot pranced among the hoary clouds. Deep within the second month, when hoary frost braces the ground, What I guessed to be a hawk's feather hung from the back of his skull, probably tied there by a short leather thong attached to his hoary mane. While some WWII casualties have been salvaged, many of the wrecks that litter the unique Rock Island eco-system are full of marine life and hoary artefacts. Eric gazed into the small, hoary, glass-like balls. And even if you could never bring yourself to back England, there is some good news - now they've finally won a World Cup, those hoary old pictures of the 1966 final might finally get put to the back of the cupboard. Synonyms greyish-white, grey, white, silver, silvery frost-covered, frosty, rimy 1.1 (of a person) old and having grey or white hair. a hoary old fellow with a face of white stubble Example sentencesExamples He stands to guide me to the door, then stops to point out a photo of himself looking somewhat starstruck and goofy-grinned beside four hoary men, his mayoral predecessors. Dropping the pencil abruptly, she looks up at her hoary teacher, ‘Ma'am?’ He was that old, hoary kind of Fleet Street hack with newsprint-stained fingers. Popular impressions of the British soldier during the Georgian era continue to be dominated by hoary stereotypes. No, what's really disturbing about the whole phenomenon is the emergence of a new breed of hoary old pop marketing men who don't even feel the need to pretend they are anything else. Synonyms elderly, aged, old, getting on, ancient, venerable, long in the tooth, of an advanced age, advanced in years grey-haired, white-haired, silver-haired, silvery-haired, grizzled, grizzly informal past it, over the hill rare longevous, senescent 1.2attributive Used in names of animals and plants covered with whitish fur or short hairs, e.g. hoary bat, hoary cress. Example sentencesExamples The islands' biggest native mammal is the hoary bat. Ross reported that 136 of 139 stomachs of hoary bats from New Mexico contained moths; flying ants were in 9 bats. Ms Lloyd said hoary cress had an extensive root system that choked grain and horticulture crops and pastures. No amphibian or terrestrial reptile, and only one terrestrial mammal, the hoary bat, completed the journey on its own. Songbirds also live here, including the snow bunting, raven, American tree sparrow, and hoary redpoll. Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus. The refuse dump-sewage lagoons had the largest numbers of waterfowl, herring gulls, and hoary redpolls, but the lowest diversity index. The endangered Hawaiian hoary bat also roosts there. Strange birds made ominous sounds, and small scurrying creatures fled into the protection of the hoary underbrush. Hawaii may have no native terrestrial mammals, but the islands do harbor one native aquatic mammal, the monk seal, and one native flying mammal, the hoary bat. 2Overused and unoriginal; trite. the hoary old adage often used by Fleet Street editors Example sentencesExamples As the hoary old chestnut goes, we take our freedom for granted. Better late than never’ is one of those hoary aphorisms hauled out by those who prefer soundbites to scrutiny. To argue that the legal ownership of firearms by the citizens are a source for criminals is a hoary old story that has been disproved over hundreds of years. Can we just agree on that, and never see these hoary and overused devices again? His workplace relations minister begrudges a modest pay rise for the lowly paid, trotting out the hoary old chestnut that better pay costs jobs. His jokes may be hoary, but the glint in his eye is youthful; the footwork may be on the weather-beaten side, but his welcoming smirk is ageless. Like the hoary old cliché, ‘Oh, I only watch the documentaries on TV not those dreadful soaps!’ It is an odd moment for parents when their children's answers to that hoary old question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ My other hope is that all the Councillors will move beyond their personal interests and hoary old arguments to support the Mayor and an outcome that is the only feasible option for Lismore. Synonyms trite, hackneyed, clichéd, banal, platitudinous, vapid, ordinary, commonplace, common, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, time-worn, tired, threadbare, hack, unimaginative, unoriginal, derivative, uninspired, prosaic, routine, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill informal old hat, corny, hacky, played out North American informal cornball, dime-store rare truistic, bromidic Derivatives hoarily adverb However, I'm going to scream if I see one more hoarily unfunny "joke". Example sentencesExamples That said, to pretend that rises in salaries have been accompanied in inverse proportion by a decline in manners and honesty is to buy into the hoarily romantic old theory, and wholly unproveable assumption, that previous generations were more honourable. hoariness noun ˈhɔːrɪnəsˈhɔrinəs Their broad leaves instead of appearing glossy and green as usual, now are dusted with pale, silvery hoariness. Example sentencesExamples The hoariness of the adage does not reduce its truth. As the season advances this hoariness increases, and towards the end of the summer the undersides of some of the branches are invested with a thick downy substance, so long as at times to be sensibly agitated by the air. My interest in this isn't to mock newspapers for their hoariness. Surely my bones are weakened and my head flares with hoariness! Rhymes cacciatore, Corey, dory, Florey, flory, furore, glory, gory, hunky-dory, lory, Maury, monsignori, Montessori, multistorey, Pori, Rory, satori, saury, storey, story, Tory, vainglory Definition of hoary in US English: hoary adjectiveˈhôrēˈhɔri 1Grayish white. hoary cobwebs Example sentencesExamples The Fifth Commandment of the Bible reminds us to honor our fathers and mothers and to ‘rise up before the hoary head of the old man, to pay respect to the elders of the tribe’. Already topping hoary hair the man was not someone that attracted attention, nor did he hold the commanding aura that previous councillors of his seat demanded. Eric gazed into the small, hoary, glass-like balls. They had long been sailing west upon their expeditious and stead ship, the sun had now sat upon her throne, and her red and gold stallions that drew her chariot pranced among the hoary clouds. For blossoming from this scoundrel's chin was a hoary beard of such robustness and grooming that it called to mind a cloud brought to the shape of a man's face by the Lord himself. While some WWII casualties have been salvaged, many of the wrecks that litter the unique Rock Island eco-system are full of marine life and hoary artefacts. Deep within the second month, when hoary frost braces the ground, The painstakingly raised and restored Vasa and Mary Rose, favourites of Kings Gustavus Adolphus and Henry VIII respectively, are threatened by a chemical reaction as their hoary old timbers dry out. What I guessed to be a hawk's feather hung from the back of his skull, probably tied there by a short leather thong attached to his hoary mane. And even if you could never bring yourself to back England, there is some good news - now they've finally won a World Cup, those hoary old pictures of the 1966 final might finally get put to the back of the cupboard. Synonyms greyish-white, grey, white, silver, silvery 1.1 (of a person) having gray or white hair; aged. a hoary old fellow with a face of white stubble Example sentencesExamples Dropping the pencil abruptly, she looks up at her hoary teacher, ‘Ma'am?’ He was that old, hoary kind of Fleet Street hack with newsprint-stained fingers. No, what's really disturbing about the whole phenomenon is the emergence of a new breed of hoary old pop marketing men who don't even feel the need to pretend they are anything else. He stands to guide me to the door, then stops to point out a photo of himself looking somewhat starstruck and goofy-grinned beside four hoary men, his mayoral predecessors. Popular impressions of the British soldier during the Georgian era continue to be dominated by hoary stereotypes. Synonyms elderly, aged, old, getting on, ancient, venerable, long in the tooth, of an advanced age, advanced in years 1.2attributive Used in names of animals and plants covered with whitish fur or short hairs, e.g. hoary bat, hoary cress. Example sentencesExamples The endangered Hawaiian hoary bat also roosts there. Ms Lloyd said hoary cress had an extensive root system that choked grain and horticulture crops and pastures. No amphibian or terrestrial reptile, and only one terrestrial mammal, the hoary bat, completed the journey on its own. Ross reported that 136 of 139 stomachs of hoary bats from New Mexico contained moths; flying ants were in 9 bats. Songbirds also live here, including the snow bunting, raven, American tree sparrow, and hoary redpoll. Strange birds made ominous sounds, and small scurrying creatures fled into the protection of the hoary underbrush. The refuse dump-sewage lagoons had the largest numbers of waterfowl, herring gulls, and hoary redpolls, but the lowest diversity index. Hawaii may have no native terrestrial mammals, but the islands do harbor one native aquatic mammal, the monk seal, and one native flying mammal, the hoary bat. Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus. The islands' biggest native mammal is the hoary bat. 2Old and trite. that hoary American notion that bigger is better Example sentencesExamples His jokes may be hoary, but the glint in his eye is youthful; the footwork may be on the weather-beaten side, but his welcoming smirk is ageless. It is an odd moment for parents when their children's answers to that hoary old question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ To argue that the legal ownership of firearms by the citizens are a source for criminals is a hoary old story that has been disproved over hundreds of years. Better late than never’ is one of those hoary aphorisms hauled out by those who prefer soundbites to scrutiny. His workplace relations minister begrudges a modest pay rise for the lowly paid, trotting out the hoary old chestnut that better pay costs jobs. Like the hoary old cliché, ‘Oh, I only watch the documentaries on TV not those dreadful soaps!’ My other hope is that all the Councillors will move beyond their personal interests and hoary old arguments to support the Mayor and an outcome that is the only feasible option for Lismore. As the hoary old chestnut goes, we take our freedom for granted. Can we just agree on that, and never see these hoary and overused devices again? Synonyms trite, hackneyed, clichéd, banal, platitudinous, vapid, ordinary, commonplace, common, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, time-worn, tired, threadbare, hack, unimaginative, unoriginal, derivative, uninspired, prosaic, routine, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill
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