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hoarfrosty

hoarfrosty adjective: covered with hoar frost.

Adjective

hoarfrosty (comparative more hoarfrosty, superlative most hoarfrosty)

  1. Covered with hoar frost.
    • […] “the sky all on fire over there,” as the hoarfrosty evening fell.1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Peace of Dresden: Friedrich Does March Home”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, page...
    • Down all right, after waking at ½ past 4, and sleeping again through a long St Gothard dream—mixed of sugary ice—where I was a little girl frightened at a sorcerer for a while, and running away along a hoarfrosty road, […]1878 February 2, John Ruskin, edited by Helen Gill Viljoen, The Brantwood Diary of John Ruskin, Together with Selected Related Letters and Sketches of Persons Mentioned, New Haven, Conn.; London...
    Synonyms:
    hoarfrosted

Synonyms of hoarfrosty

Forms of hoarfrosty

comparativemore hoarfrosty
superlativemost hoarfrosty
alternative formhoar-frosty

Origin of hoarfrosty

From hoarfrost + -y.

Questions about hoarfrosty

What does hoarfrosty mean?
Hoarfrosty means covered with hoar frost.
What part of speech is hoarfrosty?
Hoarfrosty is an adjective.

Words near hoarfrosty in the dictionary

  1. hoared
  2. Hoares
  3. hoarfrost
  4. hoarfrosted
  5. hoarfrosts
  6. hoarfrosty
  7. hoarhead
  8. hoarheaded
  9. hoarheads
  10. hoarhound
  11. hoarhounds

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