grey-haired
See also: greyhaired
English
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Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
- Having grey hair.
- 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:
- Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.
- (by extension, figurative) Old, wise, experienced.
Synonyms
- (having grey hair): grizzled, grizzly, greyish, hoary
- (old): hoary, senior, venerable; see also Thesaurus:elderly or Thesaurus:old
- (wise): frood, quick-witted, sagacious; see also Thesaurus:wise
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Translations
having grey hair
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