grey-haired

adj — 2 senses

grey-haired

adj

Etymology From grey + haired.

1

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:
2

Broadly, Figuratively Old, wise, experienced.

Synonyms
gray / grey, gray-headed / grey-headed, grey-haired / gray-haired, grisly, grizzled, grizzly, hoary, mouldy, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired
Antonyms
bald, black-haired, blonde, brown-haired, brunet, brunette, raven, red-haired, redheaded
Related terms
silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired, give someone grey hair
Hypernyms
elderly, grayish

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