grey-haired
grey-haired adjective: having grey hair.
Adjective
grey-haired (not comparable)
- Having grey hair.
- Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60
- Old, wise, experienced.
- Synonyms:
- hoary, senior, venerable, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured
grey-haired meaning in Arabic and Malay
grey-haired in Arabic
- having grey hair
- أَشْيَب ʔašyab
grey-haired in Malay
- having grey hair
- beruban
Synonyms of grey-haired
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- gerontological
- long in the tooth
- matured
- of a certain age
- old as Methuselah
- on in years
- over the hill
- superannuated
- ivy-covered
- preserved
- wintry
- ancient
- aged
- age-old
- antediluvian
- cobwebbed
- cobwebby
- decrepit
- eldern
- gray
- moss-grown
- old
- old as the hills
- old as the Pyramids
- older than dirt
- older than the hills
- older than the Pyramids
- frood
- quick-witted
- sagacious
Antonyms
Forms of grey-haired
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| alternative form | grayhaired |
| alternative form | greyhaired |
Origin of grey-haired
From grey + haired.
Questions about grey-haired
- What does grey-haired mean?
- Grey-haired means having grey hair.
- What is grey-haired in Arabic?
- Grey-haired in Arabic is أَشْيَب (ʔašyab). See Grey-haired meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is grey-haired?
- Grey-haired is an adjective.
Words near grey-haired in the dictionary
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