Another word for old

Advanced in years, antiquated, antique, ancient, erstwhile, age-old, archaic, and antiquated are another word for old. New and modern are the opposites of old. On this page, find 164 synonyms for old, parts of speech, and examples of old sentences.

Old synonyms

1. elderly

  • Advanced in years
  • Aged
  • Ancient
  • Centenarian
  • Decrepit
  • Doddering
  • Doddery
  • Elderly
  • Getting on
  • Grey-bearded
  • Grey-haired
  • Grey
  • Grizzled
  • Hoary
  • In one's dotage
  • Long in the tooth
  • Mature
  • No spring chicken
  • Nonagenarian
  • Not as young as one was
  • Not long for this world
  • Octogenarian
  • Older
  • Over the hill
  • Past it
  • Past one's prime
  • Ripe
  • Senescent
  • Senile
  • Senior
  • Septuagenarian
  • Superannuated
  • Up in years
  • Venerable
  • Longevous

2. historic

  • Antiquated
  • Broken-down
  • Crumbling
  • Decaying
  • Dilapidated
  • Historic
  • Ramshackle
  • Run down
  • Tumbledown
  • Disintegrating

3. worn

  • Antique
  • Cast-off
  • Démodé
  • Frayed
  • Hand-me-down
  • Holey
  • Moth-eaten
  • Old-fashioned
  • Out of date
  • Outmoded
  • Patched
  • Ragged
  • Shabby
  • Tattered
  • Tatty
  • Threadbare
  • Torn
  • Veteran
  • Worn out
  • Worn
  • Yellowed
  • Vintage

4. bygone

  • Ancient
  • Antediluvian
  • Bygone
  • Classical
  • Earlier
  • Earliest
  • Early
  • Forgotten
  • Former
  • Medieval
  • Of old
  • Olden
  • Past
  • Prehistoric
  • Previous
  • Primeval
  • Primordial
  • Remote
  • Immemorial

5. former

  • Erstwhile
  • Ex-
  • Former
  • Lapsed
  • Once
  • One-time
  • Previous
  • Sometime
  • Then
  • Quondam

6. hackneyed

  • Age-old
  • Antediluvian
  • Antiquated
  • Antwacky
  • Archaic
  • Banal
  • Clichéd
  • Common
  • Commonplace
  • Conventional
  • Corny
  • Customary
  • Cut and dried
  • Defunct
  • Derivative
  • Enduring
  • Established
  • Extinct
  • Familiar
  • Fixed
  • Folk
  • Fuddy-duddy
  • Habitual
  • Hack
  • Hackneyed
  • Hacky
  • Historic
  • Hoary
  • Lasting
  • Long-established
  • Long-lived
  • Long-standing
  • Obsolete
  • Old hat
  • Old-fashioned
  • Old-time
  • Old-world
  • Out of date
  • Out of the ark
  • Outdated
  • Outmoded
  • Overused
  • Overworked
  • Passé
  • Pedestrian
  • Platitudinous
  • Played out
  • Prosaic
  • Ritual
  • Ritualistic
  • Routine
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Set
  • Stale
  • Stereotyped
  • Stock
  • Superannuated
  • Time-honoured
  • Time-worn
  • Tired
  • Trite
  • Unimaginative
  • Unoriginal
  • Usual
  • Wonted
  • Worn out
  • Ancestral

Old 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.

Old parts of speech

Adjective