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adj. discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension; "a superannuated civil servant"

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 old; no longer valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"

overage, overaged, superannuated, over-the-hill

adj. too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope

antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat(p), outmoded, passe, passee

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

old

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

battered

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

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

old-fashioned, outmoded

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

old-time, quaint, olde worlde

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

past

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 earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"

antediluvian, antiquated, archaic

adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"

advanced, ripe

adj. far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"

aged, elderly, older, senior

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"

aged(a), of age(p)

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

aging, ageing, senescent

adj. growing old

ancient

adj. very old; "an ancient mariner"

anile

adj. of or like a feeble old woman

centenarian

adj. being at least 100 years old

doddering, doddery, gaga, senile

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

emeritus

adj. honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'

grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired

adj. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"

nonagenarian

adj. being from 90 to 99 years old; "the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home"

octogenarian

adj. being from 80 to 89 years old

oldish

adj. somewhat elderly

overage, overaged, superannuated, over-the-hill

adj. too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope

sexagenarian

adj. being from 60 to 69 years old; "the sexagenarian population is growing"

venerable

adj. impressive by reason of age; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard"

year-old

adj. having reached an age as specified: "a two-year-old toddler"

back(a)

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

discontinued

adj. stopped permanently or temporarily; "discontinued models"; "a discontinued magazine"; "a discontinued conversation"

disused, obsolete

adj. no longer in use; "obsolete words"

obsolescent

adj. becoming obsolete