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grizzly¹

  • /ˈɡɹɪzli/

Sounds like grisly · Rhymes with -ɪzli

adjective grizzlier · grizzliest

  1. Grey-haired, greyish.

    Similar: grizzled, grisly, hoary, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah

  2. misspelling Misspelling of grisly The walls were entirely hidden by bookshelves, or by cases containing rare specimens of fossil bones and reptile skeletons. Here was a grizzly crocodile, its teeth white and sharp as when they glistened in the waters of the Nile;...

noun grizzlies

  1. A grizzly bear. Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!
  2. Canada, US, dialectal A grating used to sieve stones by size, so as to keep stones out of the sluices (in hydraulic mining) or to control stone size in the feed to the ore crusher.

grizzly²

  • /ˈɡɹɪzli/

Sounds like grisly · Rhymes with -ɪzli

adjective grizzlier · grizzliest

  1. Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way. a grizzly baby

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: silvertip, grizzly bear, ursus horribilis, brownish, brown, park, animal, bear, scene, bears, grisly, grizzled, gray, grisy, grey-haired, grisled

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@misc{grizzly_2026,
  title = {grizzly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grizzly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}