Grey-headed (Adjective)
Meaning
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The grey-headed judge listened intently to the young lawyer's arguments.
- She had become a grey-headed grandmother in her sixties, but still enjoyed traveling the world.
- His grey-headed colleagues teased him about his balding head, but he took it in stride.
- After years of stress, he had become a grey-headed man before his time, with white hair at just thirty-five.
- The grey-headed elder spoke wisely to the group of young villagers, sharing stories of his past experiences.