Ageing
Synonyms for age
verb become older
develop
mature
get along
grow
deteriorate
push
decline
mellow
ripen
wane
grow up
grow feeble
grow old
put mileage on
Antonyms for ageing
decrease
lessen
cease
increase
halt
stop
rise
Concept Thesaurus for word ageing
2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession
Synonyms – noun
age
golden years
anility
declining years
superannuation
vale of years
threescore years and ten
time of life.
firstling
[Science of old age] geriatrics
oldness
senility
gray hairs
decrepitude
second childhood
decline of life
green old age
seniority
doyen
nostology.
old age
senescence
climacteric
hoary age
second childishness
“sear and yellow leaf”
ripe age
eldership
father
advanced age
years
grand climacteric
caducity
dotage
[Macbeth]
longevity
elders (veteran)
primogeniture.
Synonyms – verbs
be aged
decline
grow old
wane
get old
dodder
age
senesce.
Synonyms – adjectives
aged
senile
ripe
waning
hoar
antiquated
superannuated
wrinkled
doting (imbecile)
oldest
ichiban
of a certain age
patriarchal (ancient)
old
matronly
mellow
past one’s prime
hoary
passe
advanced in life
long in the tooth
like the last of pea time.
eldest
ichiro [Japanese].
no spring chicken
gerontic.
elderly
anile
run to seed
gray
venerable
effete
advanced in years
marked with the crow’s foot
older
senior
turned of
old as Methuselah
geriatric
in years
declining
gray-headed
time-worn
decrepit
stricken in years
having one foot in the grave
elder
firstborn
years old
ancestral
Synonyms – phrases
“give me a staff of honor for my age” [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes [“Old men are boys again” (Latin)]; peu de gens savent être vieux [“Few know how to be old” (French)]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Pliny the Younger. “Who has departed full in years has departed full in honors” (Latin)]; “old age is creeping on apace” [Byron]; “slow-consuming age”‘ [Gray]; “the hoary head is a crown of glory” [Proverbs xvi, [more]]; “the silver livery of advised age” [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefully; “to vanish in the chinks
Antonyms
youth
adolescence
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Other adjectives related to ageing
advanced in life
anicular
antiquated
doited
eldest
gray
in years
matronly
old
past one’s prime
run to seed
silurian
venerable
advanced in years
anile
ayne
effete
epigonous
gray
insenescible
mellow
old as Methuselah
patriarchal
senescent
stricken in years
waning
aged
annotinous
declining
eigne
first
hoar
juvenescent
no chicken
older
quadragenarious
senile
superannuated
wrinkled
ancestral
annuated
decrepit
elder
gerocomical
hoary
marked with a crow’s foot
of a certain age
oldest
ripe
senior
time
years old
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