What is another word for old?
861 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈə͡ʊld], [ ˈəʊld], [ ˈəʊ_l_d]
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Similar words for old:
- advanced in age (adjective)
- age-old (adjective)
- aged (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- ancestral (adjective)
- antediluvian (adjective)
- antiquated (adjective)
- broken-down (adjective)
- decrepit (adjective)
- dilapidated (adjective)
- elderly (adjective)
- erstwhile (adjective)
- experienced (adjective)
- former (adjective)
- hackneyed (adjective)
- historical (adjective)
- hoary (adjective)
- inveterate (adjective)
- lasting (adjective)
- late (adjective)
- lifelong (adjective)
- medieval (adjective)
- mossy (adjective)
- musty (adjective)
- obsolete (adjective)
- old (adjective)
- old-fashioned (adjective)
- old school (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- outdated (adjective)
- outdated/out-of-date (adjective)
- passe (adjective)
- past (adjective)
- perennial (adjective)
- prehistoric (adjective)
- primal (adjective)
- primitive (adjective)
- run-down (adjective)
- secondhand (adjective)
- seedy (adjective)
- senile (adjective)
- skillful (adjective)
- threadbare (adjective)
- time-honored (adjective)
- traditional (adjective)
- traditional, long-established (adjective)
- veteran (adjective)
- worn (adjective)
- worn/worn-out (adjective)
- young (adjective)
- once (adjective, adverb)
- other relevant words (adjective, adverb)
- once (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- ageing (noun)
- aging (noun)
- ancient (noun)
- antique (noun)
- archaic (noun)
- auld (noun)
- centenarian (noun)
- cherished (noun)
- cold (noun)
- darkened (noun)
- doddering (noun)
- doddery (noun)
- echt (noun)
- emeritus (noun)
- gaga (noun)
- genuine (noun)
- gray-headed (noun)
- grey-haired (noun)
- grey-headed (noun)
- grownup (noun)
- hand-down (noun)
- hand-me-down (noun)
- hoar (noun)
- honest-to-god (noun)
- honest-to-goodness (noun)
- immemorial (noun)
- long-ago (noun)
- longtime (noun)
- middle-aged (noun)
- moth-eaten (noun)
- nonagenarian (noun)
- of age (noun)
- older (noun)
- overage (noun)
- overaged (noun)
- patched (noun)
- rusty (noun)
- sexagenarian (noun)
- sunset (noun)
- sure-enough (noun)
- unoriginal (noun)
- used (noun)
- wonderful (noun)
- yellowed (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- pass (verb)
- other synonyms
- Grey
- archaic
- decayed
- dilapidated
- hand-down
- medieval
- obsolete
- out-of-date
- worn
Synonyms for Old:
adj.
• advanced in age (adjective)- inactive,
- gray-haired,
- debilitated,
- gray,
- enfeebled,
- not young,
- impaired,
- infirm,
- broken down,
- olden,
- along in years,
- tired,
- exhausted,
- matured,
- skilled,
- mature,
- over the hill,
- fossil,
- ancient,
- past one's prime,
- venerable,
- oldish,
- getting on,
- wasted,
- geriatric,
- grizzled,
- senior,
- superannuated,
- aged.
- old.
- running in family,
- more lineal,
- more inbred,
- most inbred,
- in born,
- in-bred,
- most tribal,
- in family,
- most lineal,
- more genealogical,
- more totemic,
- most genealogical,
- most totemic,
- in bred,
- running family,
- more tribal,
- in-born,
- running the family.
- most old fangled,
- most outworn,
- more old fangled,
- old fangled,
- most old-fangled,
- more oldfangled,
- more old-fangled,
- out-worn,
- out worn,
- more outworn,
- most oldfangled.
- in-firmest,
- in firmest,
- be draggled,
- in-substantial,
- tumble-down,
- more tumble down,
- most anile,
- most battered,
- in-firmer,
- most tumble-down,
- weather beaten,
- more quavering,
- most tumble down,
- un soundest,
- be-draggled,
- more tumble-down,
- in-firm,
- most quavering,
- un-soundest,
- un-sound,
- more anile,
- in firmer,
- un-sounder,
- un sounder,
- more fragile,
- fragile,
- un sound,
- creakiest,
- more battered,
- rickety,
- in-capacitated,
- in capacitated,
- tumble down,
- in substantial.
- more fallenin,
- usedup,
- more used up,
- un-kempter,
- fallen in,
- most beatup,
- un improved,
- de-relict,
- shaky,
- more rinky-dink,
- fallenin,
- more fallen in,
- de relict,
- more beatup,
- un-improved,
- most usedup,
- most rinky-dink,
- un kemptest,
- slummiest,
- neglected,
- most used up,
- beatup,
- more dogeared,
- more beat-up,
- most fallenin,
- more usedup,
- most marred,
- most beat-up,
- un-kempt,
- un kempter,
- most fallen in,
- dog eared,
- more rinky dink,
- rinky-dink,
- in bad way,
- most rinkydink,
- un kempt,
- more marred,
- most used-up,
- most rinky dink,
- dogeared,
- rinky dink,
- most dogeared,
- most fallen-in,
- more used-up,
- more rinkydink,
- most dog eared,
- un-kemptest,
- more dog eared,
- more beat up,
- more dog-eared,
- most beat up,
- more fallen-in,
- most dog-eared.
- re tired,
- more declining,
- retired,
- long tooth,
- most declining,
- re-tired,
- most aging,
- more aging,
- lot mileage,
- over hill.
- knowing one stuff,
- having something on ball,
- knowing ones stuff,
- knowing score,
- more well-versed,
- most well-versed,
- having something on the ball,
- Sporter,
- pro,
- most well versed,
- having on ball,
- having on the ball,
- having something ball,
- more well versed,
- more wellversed,
- most dynamite,
- sportest,
- well versed,
- vetest,
- the right stuff,
- in know,
- knowing stuff,
- wellversed,
- having something the ball,
- Worldlywise,
- more dynamite,
- most wellversed,
- having the ball.
- more aforementioned,
- Whilom,
- fore going,
- more ex-,
- more whilom,
- most aforementioned,
- most ex,
- more above,
- fore-going,
- de parted,
- most whilom,
- de-parted,
- most above,
- more ex,
- most ex-.
- old-saw,
- familiar tune,
- stocker,
- run of the mill,
- old saw,
- played-out,
- old chestnut,
- well-worn,
- old-hat,
- old-chestnut.
- most chronicled,
- more commemorated,
- more archival,
- most documented,
- most archival,
- most commemorated,
- more documented,
- more chronicled,
- more attested,
- most attested.
- hard core,
- hardcore.
- most long term,
- more long term,
- in-dissoluble,
- more forever,
- most long-term,
- forever,
- most forever,
- more longterm,
- long term,
- un ceasing,
- un-remitting,
- un remitting,
- un-ceasing,
- most longterm,
- in-exhaustible,
- in exhaustible,
- most inexpungible,
- more inexpungible,
- in dissoluble,
- more long-term,
- longterm.
- more has-been,
- more fossil,
- most fossil,
- horse and buggy,
- most oldschool,
- hasbeen,
- most has been,
- dis-carded,
- most has-been,
- more old-school,
- more old school,
- more anachronistic,
- most out-of-fashion,
- dis used,
- has been,
- most anachronistic,
- dis-used,
- more disused,
- most disused,
- most out of fashion,
- most hasbeen,
- most dinosaur,
- horse buggy,
- more out of fashion,
- more out-of-fashion,
- dis carded,
- oldschool,
- un fashionable,
- more dinosaur,
- most old school,
- dead gone,
- more has been,
- un-fashionable,
- more hasbeen,
- more oldschool,
- most old-school.
- out it,
- un-stylish,
- most out of style,
- of old school,
- oldtime,
- most demoded,
- de mode,
- old time,
- most unstylish,
- dis-approved,
- more demode,
- more demoded,
- dis approved,
- of olden days,
- more out of style,
- more unstylish,
- behind times,
- most disapproved,
- out style,
- most out-of-style,
- more disapproved,
- un stylish,
- more out-of-style,
- most demode,
- de-mode.
- more long-established,
- most long-established,
- long established,
- most longestablished,
- more longestablished,
- longestablished,
- long-established,
- re-gular,
- re gular,
- more long established,
- most long established.
- dinosaur,
- till the cows come home,
- threadbare,
- ancestral,
- out of condition,
- creakier,
- old school,
- old-school,
- archival,
- out of fashion,
- obsolete,
- in truth,
- pegged out,
- on last leg,
- has-been,
- of the old school,
- old fashioned,
- beat-up,
- not with it,
- erstwhile,
- wizened,
- uncared for,
- musty,
- knowing the score,
- patrimonial,
- perennial,
- former,
- untended,
- dog-eared,
- hoary,
- inveterate,
- in the know,
- inexpungible,
- over-the-hill,
- hackneyed,
- oldie,
- not current,
- skillful,
- neverending,
- anile,
- slummy,
- out of style,
- broken-down,
- ratty,
- out-of-fashion,
- oldfangled,
- long-term,
- worn,
- creaky,
- knowing one's stuff,
- ex-,
- long ago,
- anachronistic,
- down at the heel,
- seasonal,
- prehistoric,
- worn down,
- past,
- experienced,
- till cows come home,
- totemic,
- tribal,
- old line,
- lot of mileage,
- long in tooth,
- worldly wise,
- in firm,
- wornout,
- of old,
- worn-down,
- dead and gone,
- lifelong,
- vet,
- longstanding,
- historical,
- EXER,
- primal,
- traditional,
- seedy,
- out-of-style,
- in a bad way,
- fallen-in,
- born with,
- mossy,
- outdated,
- played out,
- elderly,
- underivative,
- in for the long haul,
- widely used,
- used up,
- antiquated,
- dilapidated,
- had it,
- old-fashioned,
- out of it,
- slummier,
- unstylish,
- running in the family,
- in the family,
- wrung out,
- long gone,
- lasting,
- out of gas,
- passe,
- secondhand,
- of yore,
- for life,
- rinkydink,
- demoded,
- livelong,
- medieval,
- cliched,
- very old,
- run-down,
- antediluvian,
- disused,
- senile,
- out of date,
- not modern,
- time-honored,
- out-dated,
- in second childhood,
- genealogical,
- old-fangled,
- underived,
- used-up,
- the worse for wear,
- aforementioned,
- broken in,
- back number,
- decrepit,
- yearlong,
- VETER,
- senescent,
- lineal,
- ex,
- been there,
- weatherbeaten,
- no spring chicken,
- been around,
- oldfashioned,
- well-versed,
- in for long haul,
- doctrinal,
- grown old,
- age-old,
- down-at-the-heel.
- anteceding,
- olden days,
- ages ago,
- gone by,
- previous,
- way back,
- gone-by,
- ago,
- way back when,
- yesterday's,
- good old days,
- old-time,
- yore,
- down memory lane,
- behind one,
- Latterday,
- bygone.
- re current,
- un-changing,
- re-current,
- more yearlong,
- most seasonal,
- un changing,
- un failing,
- most yearlong,
- imperishable,
- un-failing,
- never ending,
- more seasonal,
- un interrupted.
- un-derivative,
- more underivative,
- more underived,
- more unevolved,
- substratal,
- most underivative,
- un derivative,
- more substratal,
- un-derived,
- un-developed,
- un evolved,
- most underived,
- most substratal,
- unevolved,
- under-lying,
- most unevolved,
- sub-stratal,
- un-evolved,
- sub stratal,
- un derived.
- un-healthy,
- under weather,
- most untended,
- un healthiest,
- un-healthiest,
- most uncared-for,
- de solate,
- un tended,
- un healthier,
- more down-at-the-heel,
- more uncared for,
- more uncared-for,
- more down at the heel,
- un healthy,
- more untended,
- most down-at-the-heel,
- uncared-for,
- most uncaredfor,
- un-tended,
- out condition,
- more uncaredfor,
- uncaredfor,
- most down at the heel,
- most uncared for,
- de-solate.
- un-tidy,
- most wilted,
- un-tidier,
- gone to seed,
- most sagging,
- more wilting,
- over grown,
- more sagging,
- most wilting,
- un tidier,
- more wilted,
- un tidy,
- un tidiest,
- un-tidiest,
- over-grown,
- gone seed.
- more enfeebled,
- doting,
- most enfeebled,
- more senescent,
- more shattered,
- most shattered,
- most senescent.
- whizest,
- more in to,
- therest,
- there,
- more crackerjack,
- in to,
- most crackerjack,
- really into,
- more into,
- pre pared,
- tuned in,
- really in to,
- pre-pared,
- whizer,
- most into,
- a hand at.
- pre scribed,
- un-written,
- un written,
- pre-scribed,
- more transmitted,
- most transmitted,
- more doctrinal,
- most doctrinal.
- Familiar,
- hardened,
- constant,
- of long standing,
- solid,
- Staying,
- perpetual,
- firm,
- established,
- steady.
- from way back,
- long time,
- wise to ways,
- long-time,
- battle-scarred,
- disciplined,
- long-serving,
- knows one's stuff,
- up to speed.
- more worndown,
- most dinged,
- worndown,
- most worn-down,
- more worn down,
- more worn-down,
- more dinged,
- most worn down,
- most worndown.
a. & adv.
• once (adjective, adverb) • Other relevant words: (adjective, adverb)adv.
• once (adverb)adv
• Other relevant words: (adverb)n.
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•
- purposeless,
- ineffective,
- defective,
- worthless,
- pathetic,
- timeworn,
- inefficient,
- futile,
- faulty,
- pointless.
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•
- outmoded,
- old folk,
- dated,
- the aged,
- pass,
- methuselah,
- dowdy,
- the old,
- the elderly,
- oldster,
- pensioner.
- auld.
- cold.
- echt.
- gaga.
- grown,
- adult.
- hoar.
- used.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb) • pass (verb)- date.
Other synonyms:
• Grey- grey.
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•
- gnarly,
- perdurable,
- seasoned,
- onetime,
- continuing,
- remote,
- versed,
- abiding,
- long-lived,
- fusty,
- last,
- colonial,
- enduring,
- tough,
- sometime,
- quondam,
- age.
-
•
- get on,
- dull,
- out-of-date,
- under.
-
•
- at.
-
•
- up.
How to use "Old" in context?
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The term "old time" has multiple meanings, but most people who use it refer to an era before the 20th century. This era is commonly referred to as the "olden days." "Old time" is often used to describe things that people from that era would have enjoyed, such as traditional values, social customs, and ways of life.
Some people believe that old time is a nostalgic term, while others believe that it's an accurate term because it accurately reflects the way people in the olden days lived. There are vintage shops and festivals that celebrate the olden days, and people often dress in costumes from that era.
Paraphrases for Old:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
ancient, antiquated, erstwhile.
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Proper noun, singular
ancient.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
age-old, old-time, olden, older, old-fashioned, old-school, year-old, old-growth, centuries-old, old-style, years-old, old-type.
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Proper noun, singular
older.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
former, longtime, original, outmoded, stale, stereotypical, time-honoured, vintage, long-established, long-time, long-held, end-of-life, long-outstanding.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
archaic, dilapidated, longstanding, obsolete, old-timer, out-of-date, outdated, long-standing.
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Adjective
Homophones for Old:
- olde.
Hyponym for Old:
n.
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time
past, past times, yesteryear.
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- Synonyms:
- comblike, acerate, acerose, ailing, arbor, barbellate, biting, briery, bristled, bristly.
