English Explanatory Dictionary

grizzled

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of grizzle
adj
  1. Greyed, old.
  2. Grey or partly grey.
  3. Streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous.

Word forms

grizzled more grizzled most grizzled

Synonyms

grey-haired grizzly hoary elder elderly geriatric gerontologic gerontological long in the tooth matured of a certain age old as Methuselah on in years over the hill senior superannuated ivy-covered preserved wintry gray / grey gray-headed / grey-headed grey-haired / gray-haired grisly grizzled mouldy silver-haired silvery-haired white-haired grayey / greyey grayish / greyish griseous grisescent

Derived words

grizzledness grizzled skipper ungrizzled
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