hoary
adjective /ˈhɔː.ri/
/ˈhɔːr.i/ Definition
› old-fashioned very old and familiar and therefore not interesting or funny: He told a few hoary old jokes and nobody laughed.Tedious and uninspiringOld or old-fashionedThe elderly › literary (of a person) very old and with white or grey hairDescribing people who are oldThe elderly
(Definition of hoary adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
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Synonyms and related words:
- aged adjective (OLD)
- ageing adjective
- ageless adjective
- as old as Methuselah idiom
- be (as) old as the hills idiom
- be past your sell-by date idiom
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