old person

Thesaurus

Noun

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old person - an elderly person                     golden ager, oldster, senior citizen adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward ancient, antediluvian - a very old person centenarian - someone who is at least 100 years old curmudgeon - a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas dodderer - one who dodders from old age and weakness dodo, fogey, fogy, fossil - someone whose style is out of fashion dotard - an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect back-number, has-been - someone who is no longer popular nonagenarian - someone whose age is in the nineties octogenarian - someone whose age is in the eighties old boy - a vivacious elderly man graybeard, greybeard, old man, Methuselah - a man who is very old old woman - a woman who is old septuagenarian - someone whose age is in the seventies sexagenarian - someone whose age is in the sixties

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old person

noun senior citizen, senior, retired person, old age pensioner, elder, pensioner (slang) coffin-dodger (slang) elderly person, O.A.P. Brit.

USAGE While not as offensive as coffin-dodger and some of the other synonyms listed here, phrases such as old man, old woman, old person, and elderly person may still cause offence. It is better to use senior citizen or senior.