Elderly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elderly \Eld"er*ly\, a.
     Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old
     age; as, elderly people.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  elderly
       adj : advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);
             "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could
             remember the construction of the first skyscraper";
             "senior citizen" [syn: {aged}, {older}, {senior}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "elderly":
     advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged,
     ageing, ageless, aging, along in years, ancient, anile, antique,
     auld, dateless, declining, decrepit, gray, gray with age,
     gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grown old, hoar, hoary, immemorial,
     of old, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history,
     old as time, old-fogyish, old-time, olden, over the hill,
     patriarchal, pensioners, senectuous, senescent, senile,
     superannuated, timeless, venerable, white, white with age,
     white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wrinkled, wrinkly,
     years old