Thesaurus:elderly

Thesaurus

elderly

English

Adjective

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

• young    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

By degree:

• suprageriatric

By gender:

• matronly

By reference to hair:

• grey-haired
• grizzled
• grizzly
• hoary
• silver-haired
• silvery-haired
• white-haired

By reference to skin:

• prune-faced
• shriveled-up (slang)
• wizened
• wrinkled    [⇒ thesaurus]
• wrinkled-up
• wrinkly
• wrizled (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• anthropic    [⇒ thesaurus]
• old    [⇒ thesaurus]

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.