Thesaurus:elderly
English
Sense: having lived for relatively many years
Detail: Of a person or living thing
Synonyms
- elder
- elderly
- geriatric
- long in the tooth (idiomatic)
- matured
- of a certain age (euphemistic)
- old as Methuselah (simile)
- on in years (idiomatic, mildly euphemistic)
- over the hill (idiomatic)
- senior
- superannuated
- ivy-covered (UK)
- moss-covered (UK)
- preserved [⇒ thesaurus] (US)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- By degree:
- By gender:
- By reference to hair:
- By reference to skin:
- prune-faced
- shriveled-up (slang)
- wizened
- wrinkled [⇒ thesaurus]
- wrinkled-up
- wrinkly
- wrizled (obsolete)
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “128. age” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “124. oldness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “elderly” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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