venerable

Adjective Satellite

• impressive by reason of age
  • "a venerable sage with white hair and beard"
• profoundly honored

Adj

• Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
• Worthy of reverence.
• Ancient, antiquated or archaic.
• Made sacred especially by religious or historical association.
• Giving an impression of aged goodness and benevolence.

Synonyms

august, revered, Havishamesque, Miss Havishamesque, age-old, aged, anachronistic, ancient, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, auld, backward, backwards, behind the times, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dated, decrepit, defunct, discontinued, disused, dootsie, eld, elderly, eldern, expired, extinct, fossilized, gray, hoary, honorable, idle, moss-grown, obsolete, old, old as the Pyramids, old as the hills, old school, old-fashioned, olden, older than dirt, older than the Pyramids, older than the hills, oldfangled, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, parachronistic, passé, respectable, superannuated, superseded, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, wintry, workless

Antonyms

contemptible