The Word is:”old”
old
/əʊld/
adjective
adjective: old; comparative adjective: older; superlative adjective: oldest; suffix: -old
1. having lived for a long time; no longer young.
“the old man lay propped up on cushions”
synonyms: elderly, mature, aged, older, senior, advanced in years, up in years, getting on; in
one’s dotage, long in the tooth, grey, grey-haired, grey-bearded, grizzled, hoary;
past one’s prime, not as young as one was, ancient, decrepit, doddering, doddery, not long for this world, ripe, senescent, senile, superannuated, venerable, septuagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian;
informal past it, over the hill, no spring chicken;
rarelongevous
“old people”
past one’s prime, not as young as one was, ancient, decrepit, doddering, doddery, not long for this world, ripe, senescent, senile, superannuated, venerable, septuagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian;
informal past it, over the hill, no spring chicken;
rarelongevous
“old people”
antonyms: young
“the old quarter of the town”
synonyms: historic, antiquated; dilapidated, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, ramshackle,
decaying, crumbling, disintegrating
“old farm buildings”
“old farm buildings”
antonyms: new, modern
boring or tiresome, especially as a result of repetition or overfamiliarity.
“I wish she’d shut up—it’s getting old”
“he complained of being old beyond his years”
2. belonging to the past; former.
“valuation under the old rating system was inexact”
synonyms: bygone, past, former, olden, of old, remote, previous, early, earlier, earliest; medieval, ancient, classical, primeval, primordial, prehistoric, antediluvian, forgotten, immemorial
“in the old days”
“in the old days”
antonyms: modern, recent
“we greeted each other like old friends”
synonyms:hackneyed, hack, banal, trite, overused, overworked, cut and dried, tired, worn out, time-worn,
stale, stereotyped, clichéd, platitudinous, unoriginal, derivative, unimaginative, commonplace, common, pedestrian, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, stock, conventional;
out of date, outdated, old-fashioned, outmoded, archaic, obsolete, defunct, extinct, antiquated, antediluvian, superannuated, hoary;
passé;
informal old hat, out of the ark, corny, fuddy-duddy, played out, hacky
“political worthies spew out the same old phrases”
out of date, outdated, old-fashioned, outmoded, archaic, obsolete, defunct, extinct, antiquated, antediluvian, superannuated, hoary;
passé;
informal old hat, out of the ark, corny, fuddy-duddy, played out, hacky
“political worthies spew out the same old phrases”
familiar, customary, conventional, established, ritual, ritualistic, habitual, set, fixed, routine, usual, wonted, historic, folk, old-world, ancestral
“I love the good old tunes”
antonyms: fresh, innovative, new
“an old Etonian”
3. of a specified age.
“he was fourteen years old”
a person or animal of the age specified.
suffix: -olds
“a nineteen-year-old”
4. informal
used to express affection, familiarity, or contempt.
“good old Mum”
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