old

• Noachian
• aboriginal
• adult
• age-old
• aged
• ageing
• ageless
• aging
• along in years
• ancient
• anile
• annoying
• antediluvian
• antiquated
• antique
• antiquity
• archaic
• archaistic
• arid
• aseptic
• barren
• blah
• blank
• boring
• bothersome
• broken down
• bygone
• cast-off
• centenarian
• classic
• classical
• colorless
• common
• commonplace
• constant
• continuing
• crumbling
• cumbersome
• dated
• dateless
• dead
• debilitated
• debilitating
• decayed
• decrepit
• defunct
• demoralizing
• departed
• discouraging
• disheartening
• dispiriting
• doddering
• done
• drab
• draining
• dreary
• drudging
• dry
• dull
• dullish
• durable
• dusty
• early
• earthbound
• elderly
• enduring
• enervating
• enfeebled
• enfeebling
• erstwhile
• established
• exhausted
• exhausting
• experienced
• expired
• extinct
• familiar
• fatiguing
• firm
• flat
• former
• fossil
• fusty
• geriatric
• getting on
• gone
• gray
• gray-haired
• grey
• grizzled
• grown-up
• hackneyed
• hallowed
• hardened
• heavy
• ho-hum
• hoar
• hoary
• humdrum
• immemorial
• impaired
• inactive
• inanimate
• infirm
• inveterate
• irksome
• irritating
• jading
• jejune
• lasting
• late
• leaden
• lifelong
• long in the tooth
• long-ago
• long-lasting
• long-lived
• longsome
• lumbering
• matriarchal
• mature
• matured
• mediaeval
• medieval
• middle-aged
• mind-numbing
• moldy
• moment
• monochromatic
• monotonous
• moth-eaten
• nonagenarian
• not young
• now
• numbing
• obsolete
• octogenarian
• of a certain age
• of long standing
• of old
• of yore
• old-fashioned
• old-time
• old-world
• olden
• older
• oldfangled
• oldish
• once
• onetime
• ordinary
• original
• other
• out-of-date
• outmoded
• over the hill
• over-the-hill
• overage
• overaged
• pallid
• palling
• past
• patriarchal
• pedantic
• pedestrian
• pensioned
• perennial
• permanent
• perpetual
• pleasureless
• plodding
• pokey
• poky
• ponderous
• practiced
• prehistoric
• prehistorical
• present
• primeval
• primitive
• primordial
• pristine
• prosaic
• prosy
• quondam
• relic
• remote
• retired
• retro
• rusty
• seasoned
• senescent
• senile
• senior
• septuagenarian
• sexagenarian
• skilled
• slow
• soggy
• solid
• sometime
• spavined
• spiritless
• stale
• staying
• steady
• sterile
• stodgy
• stuffy
• stupid
• superannuated
• suspenseless
• tame
• tedious
• tepid
• time-honored
• time-tested
• time-worn
• timeless
• timeworn
• tired
• tiresome
• tiring
• today
• tottery
• traditional
• tried
• tried-and-true
• undramatic
• uneventful
• unexceptional
• unexciting
• unfashionable
• unimaginative
• uninspiring
• uninteresting
• unnewsworthy
• unoriginal
• unrewarding
• unsensational
• unspectacular
• unsurprising
• unyoung
• vanished
• vapid
• venerable
• versed
• veteran
• vintage
• wasted
• wearing
• wearisome
• weary
• wearying
• whilom
• worn-out
• yesterday
• yesteryear
• yore

• absorbing
• adolescent
• ageless
• alluring
• amazing
• amusing
• animating
• arresting
• astonishing
• astounding
• attracting
• attractive
• awesome
• babyish
• beguiling
• bewitching
• brand-new
• breathtaking
• broken
• by-and-by
• callow
• captivating
• changeable
• charming
• childish
• childlike
• coming
• contemporary
• current
• diverting
• electrifying
• enchanting
• energizing
• engaging
• engrossing
• enlivening
• entertaining
• enthralling
• entrancing
• eventuality
• exciting
• exhilarating
• extant
• eye-opening
• fabulous
• fascinating
• finality
• fresh
• future
• futurity
• galvanizing
• green
• gripping
• hair-raising
• hereafter
• immature
• inexperienced
• infantile
• infantine
• inspiring
• interesting
• intermittent
• interrupted
• intriguing
• invigorating
• involving
• juvenile
• kiddish
• late
• latest
• marvellous
• marvelous
• mesmerizing
• minor
• mod
• modern
• moving
• new
• novel
• offing
• ongoing
• poignant
• posterity
• present
• present-day
• preteen
• prospective
• provocative
• puerile
• raw
• recent
• rip-roaring
• riveting
• rousing
• sensational
• soft
• spectacular
• spellbinding
• stimulating
• stirring
• surprising
• suspenseful
• tantalizing
• thrilling
• tomorrow
• touching
• ultramodern
• unborn
• underage
• unstable
• unsteady
• untested
• untried
• untrustworthy
• unused
• unworn
• up-to-date
• vernal
• wavering
• weak
• wonderful
• wondrous
• young
• youngish
• youthful

• noun
  1. (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
  2. (in combination) One of a specified age.
  3. A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
  4. (most often plural) One's parents.
• adjective
  1. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
  2. Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
  3. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
  4. (heading) Of an earlier time.
  5. Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
  6. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
  7. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.).
  8. Excessive, abundant.

• He found an old book in the attic.
• My old car still runs perfectly.
• She loves listening to old songs.
• The house looks old but well-maintained.
• He wore his old jacket on a cold day.

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hack

hackney

hackneyed

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