grey-haired

Questions about grey-haired

What is another word for grey-haired?

It depends which grey-haired you mean. In the sense “showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair”, the synonyms are grey, gray, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired. Across all 1 sense there are 9 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of grey-haired?

WordNet records no antonym for grey-haired. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for grey-haired come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of grey-haired

• Full entry for grey-hairedAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for grey-hairedWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.