Meanings
alternative whitehaired
- not comparableHaving white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
Near-synonyms: grizzly, silver-haired; see also Thesaurus:grey-haired
1 more example
The white-haired king took the tidings with calm, believing that he must have in some fashion broken a law without knowing.
1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41Synonyms: hoary, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveshowing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
adjectivefavorite
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishwhite-heered
- Englishwhite-haired
From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white + haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek λευκόθριξ
- λευκόθριξ (leukóthrix)having white hair
Arabic أَشْيَب
- أَشْيَب (ʔašyab)having white hair
Catalan pèl-blanc, cabellblanc
- pèl-blanchaving white hair
- cabellblanchaving white hair
Danish hvidhåret
- hvidhårethaving white hair
Finnish valkotukkainen, valkohapsinen
- valkotukkainenhaving white hair
- valkohapsinenhaving white hair
French chenu
- chenuhaving white hair
German weißhaarig
- weißhaarighaving white hair
Hungarian fehér/ősz hajú
- fehér/ősz hajúhaving white hair
Irish bán, fionn
- bánhaving white hair
- fionnhaving white hair
- bánfholtachhaving white hair
- ceannbhánhaving white hair
- fionnghealhaving white hair
- ceannghealhaving white hair
Japanese 白髪の
- 白髪の (shiraga no)having white hair
Korean 백발(白髪)의
- 백발(白髪)의 (baekbar-ui)having white hair
Norwegian Bokmål hvithåret, hvithåra
- hvithårethaving white hair
- hvithårahaving white hair
- kvithårethaving white hair
- kvithårahaving white hair
Polish białowłosy
- białowłosyhaving white hair
Portuguese grisalho, cão
- grisalhohaving white hair
- cãohaving white hair
Spanish peliblanco
- peliblancohaving white hair
Swedish vithårig
- vithårighaving white hair
Cite this entry
white-haired. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/white-haired
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