Definitions for hoary

hoary hoar·y

Spelling: [hawr-ee, hohr-ee]
IPA: /ˈhɔr i, ˈhoʊr i/

Hoary is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in hoary (ahory).

Definitions for hoary

adjective

  1. gray or white with age:
  2. ancient or venerable:
  3. tedious from familiarity; stale:

Origin of hoary

First recorded in 1520-30; hoar + -y1

Examples for hoary

This is just one of those cases when the hoary cliché is true.

The idea is an old one—or as the irritable Economist magazine calls it, “hoary.”

I will listen with coolness to the voice of native sagacity and hoary experience.

Loose his beard; his hoary hairStreamed like a meteor to the troubled air.

My stockings all want to see my mother, and my hat is hoary with age.'

And immediately she rose up from the hoary deep, like a mist.

One hoary tower only is seen, half hidden by the folds of a valley.

On the contrary, I look upon you as a swaggering bully and a hoary villain.

One cannot demand from a captain of twenty-five the austerity of a hoary philosopher.

He listened with eager docility to the voice of hoary wisdom.

Word Value for hoary
Scrable

11

Words with friends

9

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