Adjectives for age


164 Synonyms & Antonyms of AGED

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1 being of advanced years and especially past middle age

  • all the young men went to fight in the war; and only the aged and infirm remained behind
  • aging
  • (or ageing),
  • ancient,
  • elderly,
  • geriatric,
  • long-lived,
  • old,
  • older,
  • over-the-hill,
  • senescent,
  • senior,
  • unyoung
  • centenarian,
  • nonagenarian,
  • octogenarian,
  • septuagenarian,
  • sexagenarian
  • oldish
  • adult,
  • grown-up,
  • mature,
  • middle-aged
  • pensioned,
  • retired,
  • superannuated
  • matriarchal,
  • patriarchal,
  • venerable
  • anile,
  • decrepit,
  • doddering,
  • senile,
  • spavined,
  • tottery
  • overage
  • (also overaged)
  • long in the tooth,
  • of a certain age
  • ageless
  • youngish
  • adolescent,
  • immature,
  • juvenile,
  • preteen,
  • puerile
  • minor,
  • underage
  • callow,
  • green,
  • inexperienced,
  • raw
  • babyish,
  • childish,
  • childlike,
  • infantile,
  • infantine,
  • kiddish
  • young,
  • youthful

2 dating or surviving from the distant past

  • a forest of aged and gnarled oaks
  • age-old,
  • ancient,
  • antediluvian,
  • antique,
  • dateless,
  • hoar,
  • hoary,
  • immemorial,
  • old,
  • venerable
  • aging
  • (or ageing),
  • mature
  • antiquated,
  • archaic,
  • archaistic,
  • dated,
  • fusty,
  • geriatric,
  • medieval
  • (also mediaeval),
  • moldy,
  • Noachian,
  • obsolete,
  • outmoded,
  • out-of-date,
  • passé
  • old-fashioned,
  • old-time,
  • old-world,
  • retro,
  • vintage
  • durable,
  • enduring,
  • lasting,
  • long-lived,
  • permanent
  • ageless,
  • hallowed,
  • time-honored,
  • timeless,
  • time-tested,
  • timeworn,
  • traditional,
  • tried,
  • tried-and-true
  • classic,
  • classical
  • prehistoric
  • (also prehistorical),
  • primeval,
  • primordial
  • fresh,
  • vernal,
  • young,
  • youthful
  • contemporary,
  • current,
  • latest,
  • mod,
  • novel,
  • present-day,
  • ultramodern
  • untested,
  • untried
  • brand-new,
  • unused,
  • unworn
  • modern,
  • new,
  • recent

aged

verb

past tense of age

to become mature

  • as your cat ages and becomes less active, you should change her diet
  • developed,
  • grew,
  • grew up,
  • matured,
  • progressed,
  • ripened
  • mellowed,
  • softened
  • bloomed,
  • blossomed,
  • burgeoned
  • (also bourgeoned),
  • flourished,
  • flowered
  • opened,
  • unfolded
  • advanced,
  • evolved
  • got along,
  • got on,
  • grayed
  • (also greyed)
  • decayed,
  • declined,
  • degenerated,
  • deteriorated,
  • sank
  • (or sunk),
  • worsened
  • dried,
  • drooped,
  • faded,
  • flagged,
  • sagged,
  • shriveled
  • (or shrivelled),
  • waned,
  • wasted (away),
  • weakened,
  • wilted,
  • withered
  • regressed,
  • retrogressed,
  • reverted
  • backslid,
  • lapsed,
  • returned

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adjective

having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man;an aged tree.

pertaining to or characteristic of old age: aged wrinkles.

of the age of: a man aged 40 years.

brought to maturity or mellowness, as wine, cheese, or wood: aged whiskey.

Physical Geography. old; approaching the state of a peneplain.

noun Usually the aged .(used with a plural verb)

old people collectively: We must have improved medical care for the aged.It seems we all, aged and young alike, live in a kind of continuum of existence.

OTHER WORDS FOR aged

1 ancient.

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1 young.

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Origin of aged

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English; see age, -ed2

OTHER WORDS FROM aged

a·ged·ly, adverba·ged·ness, nounpre·aged, adjectiveun·aged, adjective

well-aged, adjective

Words nearby aged

AGC, agcy. , age, age allowance, Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety, aged, agee, Agee, James, age group, age hardening, ageing

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Words related to aged

elderly, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, gray, oldie, shot, worn, age-old, been around, creaky, getting on, moth-eaten, over the hill, passé, rusty, senescent, senior citizen, timeworn

How to use aged in a sentence

  • Most of her colleagues and supervisors were middle-aged men.

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  • Published a quarter century later, Tevis’s final novel, “The Color of Money,” revisits the now middle-aged Felson as he cues up against a new, younger generation of pool players.

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  • As Miss Pittman, Tyson shows us a robust spirit seeking to push the boundaries of a frail, aged body.

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  • But when she returned to Selma in 1962 to care for her aged mother, she lost that right.

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  • At 10 past 5, a middle-aged white man climbed the stairs out of the City Hall subway.

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  • He alleges that a third boy, aged 10 or 11, was deliberately hit by a car and killed by a member of the pedophile network in 1979.

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British Dictionary definitions for aged

aged

/ (ˈeɪdʒɪd) /


adjective

  1. advanced in years; old
  2. (as collective noun; preceded by the)the aged

of, connected with, or characteristic of old age

(eɪdʒd) (postpositive) having the age ofa woman aged twenty

geography (not in technical use) having reached an advanced stage of erosion

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Synonyms and antonyms "age" - analysis and associations to the word age. Morphological analysis and declension of words

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Translation of the word age

We offer you the translation of the word age into English, German and French.
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  • English
  • German
  • French

  • age
    • minimum age - minimum age
  • year - year
  • Altersstufe - age group
  • Alter - old age
    • with increasing age - mit zunehmendem Alter
  • Jahre
  • Lebensalter
    • average age of life - im mittleren Lebensalter
  • Jahrgang
  • âge - century
    • preschool age - âge préscolaire
  • âge legal
  • majorite penale
  • age d'exploitabilité
  • carat - year

Relationship with other words

Words containing -age-:
  • ever-increasing
  • same age
  • self-increasing
  • self-expansion
  • ageless

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Synonyms of the word age

yearchildhoodsummerinfancy adolescencepreludeyouth

Hypernyms of the word age

  1. time

Hyponyms of the word age

  1. childhood old age
  2. youth childishness

Scope of the word age

General vocabularyMedicineEconomicsGeologyLegal term

Morphological analysis (part of speech) of the word age

ages Genitive (who, what?) age ages Dative (to whom, what?) ages Accusative (who, what?) age ages Creative (by whom, what?) ages Prepositional (about whom, about what?) aged ages

Sentences with the word age

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"Age" morphological analysis of the word - associations, cases and declension of words

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    Adjectives for age

    What is age like? We offer a selection of adjectives based on literary works and articles.

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    Associations to the word age

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    Anagrams

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    Hypernyms


    Hyponyms

    childhood

    old age


    youth

    childishness


    What kind of age (morphological analysis)

    Word parsing by part of speech, gender, number, animation and case.

    Part of speech:

    noun

    Genus:

    male

    Number:

    single

    Animation:

    inanimate

    Case:

    nominative

    Declension of the noun age (what case)

    Case declension in singular and plural.

    Case Question Unit Mn. number
    Nominative (who, what?) age ages
    Genitive (who, what?) age ages
    Dative (to whom, what?) ages
    Accusative (who, what?) age ages
    Creative (by whom, what?) ages
    Prepositional (about whom, about what?) aged ages

    Area of ​​application

    General vocabulary woodworking Geophysics Idiomatic expression Labor market

    Sentences with the word age

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    1. Age gracefully covered for different times

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