grey-haired

See also: greyhaired

English

Alternative forms

• gray-haired, grayhaired
• greyhaired

Etymology

From grey +‎ haired.

Adjective

grey-haired (not comparable)

1. Having grey hair.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• (having grey hair): grizzled, grizzly, greyish, hoary
• (old): hoary, senior, venerable; see also Thesaurus:elderly or Thesaurus:old
• (wise): frood, quick-witted, sagacious; see also Thesaurus:wise

Related terms

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

Translations

having grey hair

• Arabic: أَشْيَب (ʔašyab)
• Armenian: ալեզարդ (hy) (alezard)
• Bulgarian: посивял (bg) (posivjal)
• Crimean Tatar: çalbaş
• Czech: šedivý (cs) m
• Danish: gråhåret
• Dutch: grijsharig (nl)
• Finnish: harmaatukkainen, harmaahapsinen
• French: chenu (fr)
• Hungarian: ősz (hu), őszhajú
• Icelandic: gráhærður
• Irish: liath (ga), ceannliath
• Italian: brizzolato (it)
• Latin: cānus (la)
• Lithuanian: žilas m
• Macedonian: си́вокос (sívokos)
• Malay: beruban
• Maori: hinahina, tārekoreko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gråhåret, gråhåra

  Nynorsk: gråhåra, gråhærd

• Plautdietsch: greiwhoarich
• Polish: siwowłosy (pl)
• Portuguese: grisalho (pt)
• Russian: седо́й (ru) (sedój), седовла́сый (ru) (sedovlásyj), седоволо́сый (ru) (sedovolósyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: sed (sh), sedokos
• Spanish: canoso (es)
• Swedish: gråhårig (sv)
• Tausug: ubanan
• Ukrainian: си́вий m (sývyj), сивоволо́сий (syvovolósyj)
• Welsh: penllwyd
• Yup'ik: qaingqellria

See also

• give someone grey hair