geriatricadjective
uk/ˌdʒer.iˈæt.rɪk/us/ˌdʒer.iˈæt.rɪk/for or relating to old people:
a geriatric hospital/ward/nurse
UK informal disapproving old and weak:
Who's going to elect a geriatric President?
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Describing people who are old
- aged
- ageing
- ageless
- aging
- as old as Methuselah idiom
- day
- elderly
- foot
- for a man/woman/person of his/her years idiom
- gaga
- grand old age idiom
- grey
- have had its/your day idiom
- have one foot in the grave idiom
- overage
- pensionable
- senile
- sprightly
- spry
- superannuated
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geriatricnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌdʒer.iˈæt.rɪk/us/ˌdʒer.iˈæt.rɪk/an old person:
a clinic for the care of geriatrics
informal disapproving someone who is old and weak:
They were a bunch of hopeless geriatrics.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The elderly
- a ripe old age idiom
- aged
- ageism
- agism
- centenarian
- crock
- geriatrics
- gerontology
- infirmity
- octogenarian
- old
- old age
- old age pensioner
- old boy
- sb's declining years idiom
- senile
- senior citizen
- septuagenarian
- seventies
- sexagenarian
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