English-Thai Dictionary

hoary

ADJ เก่าแก่  โบรา ณ  aged ancient old fresh new young kao-kea

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOARY

n.[See Hoar. ] White or whitish; as the hoary willows. 1. White or gray with age; as hoary hairs; a hoary head.
Reverence the hoary head.
2. Moldy; mossy, or covered with a white pubescence.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HOARY

HOARY Hoar "y, a.

 

1. White or whitish. "The hoary willows." Addison.

 

2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.

 

3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

 

4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs. ] Knolles.

 

5. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Of a pale silvery gray.

 

6. (Bot. )

 

Defn: Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea ), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hoary

hoar y |ˈhôrē ˈhɔri | ▶adjective ( hoarier, hoariest ) 1 grayish white: hoary cobwebs. • (of a person ) having gray or white hair; aged: a hoary old fellow with a face of white stubble. • [ attrib. ] used in names of animals and plants covered with whitish fur or short hairs, e.g., hoary bat, hoary cress. 2 old and trite: that hoary American notion that bigger is better. DERIVATIVES hoar i ly |ˈhôrəlē |adverb, hoar i ness noun

 

hoary marmot

hoar y mar mot |ˈhôrē ˈmärmət ˌhɔri ˈmɑrmət | ▶noun a large stocky grayish-brown marmot with a whistling call, found in the mountains of northwestern North America. [Marmota caligata, family Sciuridae. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

hoary

hoary |ˈhɔːri | ▶adjective ( hoarier, hoariest ) 1 greyish white: hoary cobwebs. • (of a person ) old and having grey or white hair: young lasses imprisoned by hoary old husbands. • [ attrib. ] used in names of animals and plants covered with whitish fur or short hairs, e.g. hoary bat, hoary cress. 2 overused and unoriginal; trite: the hoary old adage often used by Fleet Street editors. DERIVATIVES hoarily adverb, hoariness noun

 

hoary marmot

hoary mar ¦mot ▶noun a large stocky greyish-brown marmot with a whistling call, found in the mountains of north-western North America. ●Marmota caligata, family Sciuridae.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

hoary

hoary adjective 1 hoary cobwebs: grayish-white, gray, white, snowy, silver, silvery; frosty; literary rimy. 2 a hoary old man: gray-haired, white-haired, silver-haired, grizzled; elderly, aged, old, ancient, venerable; informal over the hill. ANTONYMS young.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

hoary

hoary adjective 1 majestic old oaks and hoary willows: greyish-white, grey, white, silver, silvery; frost-covered, frosty, rimy. 2 he began to think of himself as a hoary ancient: elderly, aged, old, getting on, ancient, venerable, long in the tooth, of an advanced age, advanced in years; grey-haired, white-haired, silvery-haired, grizzled, grizzly; informal past it, over the hill; rare longevous, senescent. ANTONYMS young. 3 the hoary old adage often used by Fleet Street editors: 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, played out; N. Amer. informal cornball, dime-store; rare truistic, bromidic. ANTONYMS original.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hoary

hoar y /hɔ́ːri /形容詞 ｟やや古 ｠1 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗とても古い, 古めかしい ; 古くてなじみ深い 〈問題など 〉.2 ｟文 ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗(老いて )白い 〈髪 〉.3 〈人が 〉白髪の .h ó ar i ness 名詞