elderly
adj/ˈɛldɚli/US/ˈɛldəli/UK
Etymology
Definitions
old
old; having lived for relatively many years.
Of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging.
- The car was parked toward the rear of the shop, an elderly gray-blue Dodge. It looked better than it had in years.
An elderly person.
- He lives next door to an elderly.
- He lives next door to some elderlies.
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Older people as a whole.
- the elderly
- health insurance and retirement income for the elderly
The neighborhood
- synonymelder
- synonymelderly
- synonymgeriatric
- synonymgerontologic
- synonymgerontological
- synonymlong in the tooth
- synonymmatured
- synonymof a certain age
- synonymold as Methuselah
- synonymon in years
- synonymover the hill
- synonymsenior
- antonymyoung
- neighboranthropic
- neighborold
- neighborBy degree:
- neighborsuprageriatric
- neighborBy gender:
- neighbormatronly
- neighborBy reference to hair:
- neighborgray
- neighborgray-haired
- neighborgrey
- neighborgrey-haired
- neighborgrizzled
Derived
elderliness, illderly, nonelderly, unelderly, wellderly, elderly care
Vish — recursive loop
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A definitional loop anchored at elderly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at elderly
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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