middle-aged

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or relating to middle age or a middle-ager

   Of or relating to middle age or a middle-ager; neither old nor young.

   • The person of interest is a middle-aged man seen acting strangely in the security camera's video.
   • The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yet middle aged.
   • When I was a middle-aged Man.
2. 2

   Characteristic of middle-aged people.

   • Well, perhaps that beige-on-beige color scheme may be a little middle-aged for a young artist's apartment; a little repainting won't hurt anything.
   • Cowper was really mad at intervals, but his poetry, admirable as it is in its own middle-aged way, is in need of anything rather than a strait-waistcoat.
   • His already almost middle-aged aspect of serene sagacity.
3. 3

   Belonging to the Middle Ages

   Belonging to the Middle Ages; medieval.

   • The reading and perusing of middle-ag’d Antiquities.
   • Of the modern and middle-aged Greek.
   • The English hunger bears a strong resemblance to the Spanish hambre, formed from the middle-aged Latin famina.

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