This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
cadgy
querimonious
bombaster
canescent


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PRONUNCIATION:

(kuh-NES-uhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Turning gray or white; becoming hoary.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin canescere (to grow gray or white), from canus (white, hoary). Earliest documented use: 1775. A synonym is hoary.

USAGE:

“Riding up the ski chairlift with a stranger, a documentarian
just back from Africa filming elephants, he was canescent
and thin, seemed depressed and spoke so low I could hardly hear him
as he said unflattering things about humanity (is depression
blasphemous?)”
Joanne Dominique Dwyer; Petitioning for a Hit; The American Poetry Review (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Nov/Dec 2024.

See more usage examples of canescent in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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