grizzly

1. 1.

   powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

   Synonymsgrizzly bearsilvertipsilver-tipUrsus horribilisUrsus arctos horribilis

   Broaderbrown bear

1. 1.

   showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

   “whose beard with age is hoar”

   “nodded his hoary head”

   Synonymsgreygraygrey-hairedgray-hairedgrey-headedgray-headedhoarhoarywhite-haired

   Similarold

Other forms of grizzly

plural

grizzlies·

comparative or superlative

grizzlier

comparative or superlative

grizzliest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grizzly

What does grizzly mean?

grizzly means "powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grizzly?

grizzly has 2 syllables: grizz-ly. The stress falls on "grizz". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹɪzli/.

What is another word for grizzly?

Close synonyms include grizzly bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grizzly a common word?

grizzly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with grizzly?

1 word rhymes with grizzly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.