Describing people who are old
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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- aged
- ageing
- ageless
- as old as Methuselahidiom
- auntie
- be (as) old as the hillsidiom
- be long in the toothidiom
- be past itidiom
- be pastyoursell-by dateidiom
- day
- elderly
- foot
- for a man/woman/person of his/her yearsidiom
- gaga
- geriatric
- grand
- grand old ageidiom
- gray
- grey
- greying
- hale and hearty
- have hadits/yourdayidiom
- have one foot in the graveidiom
- hill
- hoary
- infirm
- long
- Methuselah
- old
- oldish
- over the hillidiom
- overage
- past
- pensionable
- senile
- sprightliness
- sprightly
- spry
- superannuated
- wizened
- year