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Nouns (7)

old

n. past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')

snick, notch, nick

n. a small cut

nick, gouge, dent

n. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

Verbs (9)

nick, mate successfully

v. mate successfully; of livestock

chip, nick

v. cut a nick into

snick, nick

v. cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek"

nick, divide the tail muscles, reset the tail muscles

v. divide or reset the tail muscles of; "nick horses"

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (10)

old

adj. of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"

old

adj. of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"

old

adj. (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"

old

adj. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"

old, older

adj. old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"

cold, old

adj. having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

old, stale

adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"

Fuzzynyms (62)

scar, cicatrix, cicatrice

n. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

score, seduce

v. induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"

gouge, force out, force with the thumb

v. force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"

notch, cut a notch, make a notch

v. cut or make a notch into; "notch the rope"

gouge, force out, force with the thumb

v. force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"

notch, cut a notch, make a notch

v. cut or make a notch into; "notch the rope"

gouge, groove, rout

v. make a groove in

back, out-of-date

adj. of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine"

battered

adj. damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat"

ragged, tatty, frayed, moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattered

adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

old-fashioned, outmoded

adj. out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

obsolete, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, superannuated

adj. old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"

quaint, old-time

adj. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

battered, bedraggled, beat-up, beaten-up, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound

adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

original, primitive, aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial

adj. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"

aged, of age

adj. having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable); "aged ten"; "ten years of age"

aged, senior, older, elderly

adj. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"

patriarchal

adj. characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line

Synonyms (101)

unfashionable

adj. not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"

noncurrent

adj. not current or belonging to the present time

nonmodern

adj. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time

past

adj. earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"

stale

adj. showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"

worn

adj. affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket"

experienced

adj. having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation

mature

adj. having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell"

senior

adj. older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer"

ago, agone

adj. gone by; or in the past; "two years ago"; "`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'"

ancient

adj. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"

departed, bygone, gone, bypast, foregone

adj. well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

knightly, medieval, mediaeval, chivalric

adj. characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years"

earlier

adj. (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"

other, early, former

adj. of the distant past: "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times"

former, erstwhile, once, onetime, quondam, sometime

adj. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"

adj. (combining form) former: "an ex-president"

previous, former

adj. (used especially of persons) of the immediate past; "the former president"; "our late President is still very active"; "the previous occupant of the White House"

historic, historical

adj. belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character"

last

adj. immediately past; "last Thursday"; "the last chapter we read"

olden

adj. long past; "olden days"

other

adj. recently past; "the other evening"

prehistoric, prehistorical

adj. belonging to or existing in times before recorded history; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples"

then

adj. at a specific prior time; "the then president"

ultimo, ult

adj. in or of the month preceding the present one; "your letter received on the 29th ult"

full-fledged, fully fledged

adj. (of persons e.g.) having gained full status; "a full-fledged lawyer"; "by the age of seventeen I was a full-fledged atheist"; "sees itself as a fully fledged rival party"

initiate, initiated

adj. introduced to something new

knowledgeable about

adj. thoroughly acquainted with through study or experience

practiced, practised

adj. skillful after much practice

veteran, seasoned, veteranlike

adj. rendered competent through trial and experience; "troops seasoned in combat"; "a seasoned traveler"; "veteran steadiness"; "a veteran officer"

addled

adj. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"

bad, spoilt, spoiled

adj. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

corrupt, tainted, putrid, decomposed, rotten

adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

rotting, decomposing, putrescent

adj. becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses"

dry, hard

adj. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

flyblown

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

limp, wilted

adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"

musty, moldy, mouldy

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

rancid

adj. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

adapted

adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"

banal, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous

adj. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

commonplace, trite, bromidic, hackneyed, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn

adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

routine, stock, ready-made, cliched

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

imitative, copied

adj. marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

derivative, derived

adj. resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

duplicate, triplicate

adj. identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

slavish

adj. blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

traced

adj. derived by copying something else; especially by following lines seen through a transparent sheet

Antonyms (10)

new

adj. not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"

fresh

adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"

fresh

adj. (of a cycle) beginning or occurring again; "a fresh start"; "fresh ideas"

modern

adj. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"

young, immature

adj. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"

young, immature

adj. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"

fresh

adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"

original

adj. being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind"

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