grey-haired

• gray-haired, grayhaired
• greyhaired

From grey +‎ haired.

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grey-haired (not comparable)

1. Having grey hair.

   Synonyms: grizzled, grizzly, greyish, hoary; see also Thesaurus:grey-haired

   • 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:

     Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.

2. (by extension, figurative) Old, wise, experienced.

   (old): Synonyms: hoary, senior, venerable; see also Thesaurus:elderly, Thesaurus:old

   (wise): Synonyms: frood, quick-witted, sagacious; see also Thesaurus:wise

• silver-haired, silvery-haired
• white-haired

• give someone grey hair