Hoary

1. White, whitish, or greyish-white.
2. White or grey with age.
3. (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
4. (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
5. (obsolete) Remote in time past.
6. (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
7. Old or old-fashioned; trite.

Synonyms

• (whitish, greyish-white): albescent, griseous, whity
• (white or grey with age): grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired; elderly
• (old): aged, ancient, olden; old
• (botany: covered with greyish-white hairs): canescent
• (remote in time past): bygone, foregone; past