elderly

Plural: elderlies

Noun

• A polite term for a rather old person.
• 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.

Examples

• He lives next door to an elderly.
• He lives next door to some elderlies.
• health insurance and retirement income for the elderly
• the elderly
• The elderly player, with decades of experience, still found new words to amaze.

Synonyms

aged, older, senior, ;, Havishamesque, Miss Havishamesque, 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, elder#Noun, elderly, expired, extinct, faulty, fossilized, geezer, genarian, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, grayhead, greyhead, hoarhead, idle, ivy-covered, long in the tooth, matured, munted, mzee, no spring chicken, obsolete, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, old school, old timer, old-fashioned, old-timer, older adult, oldfangled, oldie, oldster, oldtimer, on in years, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over the hill, parachronistic, passé, preserved, raddled, ragged, ravaged, rinky-dink, see also Thesaurus:old person § Holonyms, senior citizen, senior#Noun, shabby, silver top, superannuated, superseded, timeworn, twirly, unemployed, unimproved, unoccupied, venerable, wasted, weakened, weazen, wintry, workless, worn, worn-out, worsened, wrecked, wrecksome,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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