Synonyms of the word

hoar

• n. A white or greyish-white colour.
• n. Hoariness; antiquity.
• adj. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
• adj. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
• adj. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.

frost

• n. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process…
• n. The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
• n. (figuratively) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
• n. (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
• v. To get covered with frost.
• v. To coat something (e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
• v. To anger or annoy.

gray

• adj. (US) Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
• adj. (US) Dreary, gloomy.
• adj. (US) Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
• adj. (US) Relating to older people.
• v. (US) To become gray.
• v. (US) To cause to become gray.
• v. (US, demography, slang) To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic…
• n. (US) An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
• n. (chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged…
• n. (US, two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
• n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed…

gray-haired

• adj. Having gray hair.
• adj. (by extension, figuratively) old, wise, experienced.

grey

• adj. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
• adj. Dreary, gloomy.
• adj. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
• adj. Relating to older people.
• v. To become grey.
• v. To cause to become grey.
• v. (demography, slang) To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
• n. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
• n. (ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

grey-haired

• adj. Having grey hair.
• adj. (by extension, figuratively) old, wise, experienced.

grizzly

• adj. Grey-haired, greyish.
• adj. Misspelling of grisly.
• n. Abbreviation of grizzly bear.
• n. (US, dialect) Abbreviation of grizzly bars. (In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out…

hoarfrost

• n. Dew-drops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed…

hoary

• adj. White or gray with age.
• adj. (zoology) Of a pale silvery gray.
• adj. (botany) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
• adj. (obsolete) Remote in time past.
• adj. (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
• adj. Old or old-fashioned.

ice

• n. (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
• n. (uncountable) Covering made of frozen water on a river or other water basin in cold season.
• n. (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
• n. (uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily…
• n. (countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
• n. (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
• n. (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds.
• n. (uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
• n. (uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
• v. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
• v. To become ice, to freeze.
• v. (slang) To murder.
• v. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
• v. (ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
• v. (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

old

• adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
• adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
• adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
• adj. (heading) Of an earlier time.
• adj. Tiresome.
• adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
• adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old,…
• adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
• n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

rime

• n. (meteorology, uncountable) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold…
• n. (meteorology, uncountable) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
• n. (uncountable) A film or slimy coating.
• v. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
• n. (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
• n. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
• n. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
• v. Obsolete form of rhyme.
• n. A step of a ladder; a rung.
• n. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

white-haired

• adj. Having white hair, especially from ageing.