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Elderly

Synonyms Elderly, aged, senior, up in years, in one's dotage, grey, grey-bearded, hoary, not as young as one was, decrepit, doddery, ripe, senile, venerable, octogenarian, centenarian, over the hill, longevous, mature, older, advanced in years, getting on, long in the tooth, grey-haired, grizzled, past one's prime, ancient, doddering, not long for this world, senescent, superannuated, septuagenarian, nonagenarian, past it, and no spring chicken.

Historic

Synonyms Historic, dilapidated, run down, ramshackle, crumbling, antiquated, broken-down, tumbledown, decaying, and disintegrating.

Worn

Synonyms Worn, shabby, holey, frayed, tattered, ragged, old-fashioned, outmoded, hand-me-down, tatty, veteran, worn out, threadbare, torn, patched, moth-eaten, yellowed, out of date, cast-off, démodé, antique, and vintage.

Bygone

Synonyms Bygone, former, of old, previous, earlier, medieval, classical, primordial, antediluvian, immemorial, past, olden, remote, early, earliest, ancient, primeval, prehistoric, and forgotten.

Former

Synonyms Former, ex-, sometime, once, lapsed, previous, one-time, erstwhile, then, and quondam.

Hackneyed

Synonyms Hackneyed, banal, overused, cut and dried, worn out, stale, clichéd, unoriginal, unimaginative, common, prosaic, stock, out of date, old-fashioned, archaic, defunct, antiquated, superannuated, passé, out of the ark, fuddy-duddy, hacky, time-honoured, long-established, long-standing, enduring, familiar, established, ritualistic, set, routine, wonted, folk, ancestral, hack, trite, overworked, tired, time-worn, stereotyped, platitudinous, derivative, commonplace, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill, conventional, outdated, outmoded, obsolete, extinct, antediluvian, hoary, old hat, corny, played out, antwacky, old-time, age-old, long-lived, lasting, customary, ritual, habitual, fixed, usual, historic, and old-world.

Example Sentences

The old house stood abandoned silently.

His old jacket smelled like rain.

An old book lay gathering dust.

The old tree swayed in wind.

She wore her old necklace proudly.