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Adjectives (13)
canescent
adj. covered with fine whitish hairs or down
rusty
adj. ancient; "hoary jokes"
hoar, frosted, frosty, rimy
adj. covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner
gray, grey, hoar, gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed
adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
Fuzzynyms (6)
white
adj. being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"
roan, grizzled
adj. having dark hairs mixed with grey or white
cool
adj. neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze"
chill, chilly
adj. uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"
Synonyms (107)
silver, argent, silvern, silvery, silverish
adj. of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair"
ash-gray, ash-grey, ashy
adj. of a light grey
charcoal, charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey
adj. of a very dark grey
grayish, greyish
adj. of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"
iron-gray, iron-grey
adj. of the grey color of iron
Oxford-gray, Oxford-grey
adj. of a dark shade of grey
slate-gray, slaty, slatey
adj. of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn"
auld
adj. a Scottish word; "auld lang syne"
age-old, ancient
adj. belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness"
antediluvian, antiquated, archaic
adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
antique
adj. made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"
hand-me-down, hand-down, secondhand, used
adj. passed along for further use by others
ancient, immemorial
adj. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"
longtime, long-standing
adj. of long duration; "a longtime friend"
patched
adj. mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; "patched jeans"
sunset
adj. of a declining industry or technology; "sunset industries"
yellow, yellowed
adj. changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
acold
adj. of persons; feeling cold; "Poor Tom's acold"- Shakespeare
algid
adj. chilly; "a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure"
arctic, freezing, polar, icy, frigid, gelid, glacial, ice-cold
adj. extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
bitter, biting
adj. causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
cutting, raw, illogical, bleak
adj. unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
chilled, refrigerated
adj. made or kept cold by refrigeration; "keep the milk refrigerated"; "a refrigerated truck"
shivering, chilled
adj. vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
crisp, snappy, frosty, nipping, nippy
adj. pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term)
frore
adj. very cold; "whatever the evenings be--frosty and frore or warm and wet"
iced
adj. "iced tea"
sharp, keen, piercing, toothed
adj. as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
parky
adj. pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term)
refrigerant, refrigerating
adj. causing cooling or freezing; "a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide"
shivery
adj. cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather"
stone-cold
adj. completely cold; "by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold"
unheated, unwarmed
adj. not having been heated or warmed; "an unheated room"; "unwarmed rolls"
advanced, ripe
adj. far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"
aged, senior, older, elderly
adj. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
aged, of age
adj. having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable); "aged ten"; "ten years of age"
aging, ageing, senescent
adj. growing old
ancient
adj. very old; "an ancient mariner"
anile
adj. of or like a feeble old woman
centenarian
adj. being at least 100 years old
gaga, doddering, senile
adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"
retired, emeritus
adj. honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'; `retired from assigned duties' need not imply that one is inactive
nonagenarian
adj. being from 90 to 99 years old; "the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home"
octogenarian
adj. being from 80 to 89 years old
oldish
adj. somewhat elderly
superannuated, overage, overaged
adj. too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope
retired, superannuated
adj. discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension; "a superannuated civil servant"
sexagenarian
adj. being from 60 to 69 years old; "the sexagenarian population is growing"
venerable
adj. impressive by reason of age; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard"
year-old
adj. having reached an age as specified: "a two-year-old toddler"
Antonyms (1)
hot
adj. used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"
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