elderly

Meanings

Plural: elderlies

Noun

• people who are old collectively
• An elderly person.
• Older people as a whole.

Adjective Satellite

• advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
  • "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"

Adj

• old; having lived for relatively many years.
• Of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging.

Synonyms

;, aged, ager, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backward, backwards, badge-cove, behind the times, cheeser, clapped out, cobwebbed, cobwebby, coffin dodger, crinkly, damaged, dated, decrepit, defective, defunct, deteriorated, dilapidated, discontinued, disused, dootsie, effete, eld, elder, elderly, expired, extinct, faulty, fossilized, geezer, genarian, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, grayhead, greyhead, Havishamesque, hoarhead, idle, ivy-covered, long in the tooth, matured, Miss Havishamesque, moss-covered, munted, mzee, no spring chicken, obsolete, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, old school, old timer, old-fashioned, old-timer, older, older adult, oldfangled, oldie, oldster, oldtimer, on in years, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over the hill, parachronistic, passé, preserved, raddled, ragged, ravaged, rinky-dink, see also Thesaurus:old person § Holonyms, senior, senior citizen, shabby, silver top, superannuated, superseded, timeworn, twirly, unemployed, unimproved, unoccupied, venerable, wasted, weakened, weazen, wintry, workless, worn, worn-out, worsened, wrecked, wrecksome, wrinkly

Antonyms

young

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