grizzled

[griz-uhld]

adjective

1. having gray or partly gray hair.

2. gray or partly gray.

grizzled

/ ˈɡrɪzəld /

adjective

1. streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous

2. having grey or partly grey hair

Other Word Forms

• ungrizzled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of grizzled¹

1350–1400; Middle English. See grizzle ¹, -ed ³

Example Sentences

His run-haul set him on the way to being one of the great leaders of the modern era, but he already looked a grizzled leader when taking the reins at 22.

From BBC

The older version of , now the grizzled Diamond burnt out by tour life and desperate not to duplicate the mistakes he made in his first two marriages, is played by Robert Westenberg.

From Los Angeles Times

"It's unfair to lift censorship suddenly," growls a grizzled newspaper editor into the phone, a copy of The Daily Pulp sprawled across his desk.

From BBC

But at No Kings in Louisville, instead of white flags of surrender, I saw a grizzled Army Ranger holding a sign that read “Veteran Supporting the Constitution.”

From Salon

On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.

From Los Angeles Times