The Collaborative International Dictionary
gray-haired \gray-haired\ gray-headed \gray-headed\adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
Syn: gray, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, hoar, hoary.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having gray hair. 2 ''Hence, figuratively,'' old, wise, experienced. alt. 1 Having gray hair. 2 ''Hence, figuratively,'' old, wise, experienced.
WordNet
adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: gray, grey, grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
Usage examples of "gray-haired".
That is Binks, or Calkins, or Shivers, or any one of those worried gray-haired men who sit in the outer office behind a desk strewn with papers and make sure that no mistakes have been made.
From the peaceful look of the yacht, the man and the girl in the settees, and the negroes lounging curiously against the rail, they evidently judged that there would be no resistance, for two boats were lowered casually over the side, one containing an officer and six bluejackets, and the other, four rowers and in the stern two gray-haired men in yachting flannels.
And below the cross, one on each side, stand two captains, one gray-haired and the other a young man with a broad fez.
He is the oldest of the chimps, gray-haired, going bald, a deep thinker.
Gray-haired and mid-sized, Thrasea was the most independent, fearless, and candid member of the Senate, the non-compromiser among colleagues, many of whom were toadies.
Sandra Glenn chuckled over the mental image of a grown Leslie Coombes splashing the bath water with his rubber duckie while a gray-haired matron scrubbed him down with soap and a wash cloth.
He was a gray-haired, intense-looking man, with big fleshy ears and heavy hornrimmed spectacles.
I had seen Jackie and Fritz as surely as I had seen the gray-haired priest.
Qrista said as the gray-haired man shrugged back his hood and stood silently in front of the Landholders Council, his head bowed.
Behind him limps a small tufty gray-haired gnome, clad in old-fashioned cloak and panters.
The driver of the motorhome was a gray- haired, wrinkled gentleman of 78 and next to him was his wife of 55 years, gray-haired and wrinkled, too.
Gray-haired Admirals gulped wakers and pored over reports of the brief but tragic battle.
The royal wizard nodded slowly as a reply, then sat down at the chessboard, across from the gray-haired sage.
There were six middle-aged gray-haired possibles--all either in custody on the nights of the killings or alibied--squarejohn witnesses.
As the gelding quick-trots out of the alleylike lane, a gray-haired woman dashes to escape, but the gelding knocks her to one side.