- aged
- aged, old, elderly, superannuated when applied to persons mean far advanced in years.Aged implies extreme old age with signs of feebleness or, sometimes, senility{
the aged creature came, shuffling along with ivory- headed wand— Keats
}Old stresses the years of one’s life, but in itself carries no connotations of marked decline{a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered— Shak.
}Elderly may imply no more than that the prime of life has been passed{when you see me again I shall be an old man—that was a slip, I meant to say elderly— J. R. Lowell
}Superannuated indicates that one has been retired or pensioned because of having reached a certain age (varying in different callings){superannuated teachers
}{superannuated judges
}Sometimes the word implies merely that one has passed the years of usefulness and with this denotation it is applied to things as well as to persons.Analogous words: infirm, feeble, decrepit (see WEAK)Antonyms: youthfulContrasted words: juvenile, puerile, boyish, virgin, virginal, maiden (see YOUTHFUL)
New Dictionary of Synonyms. 2014.