Old synonyms

Antiquated, advanced in years, antiquated, antique, ancient, erstwhile, age-old, and antediluvian are all synonyms for old. New and modern are antonyms of old. And here are 164 another word for old.

Another word for old

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  • Out of date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  • Out of date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  • Outdated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 synonyms statistics

The adjective "old" has a variety of synonyms that differ in length. 1 synonym with 2 letters, 1 synonym with 3 letters, 10 synonyms with 4 letters, 17 synonyms with 5 letters, 17 synonyms with 6 letters, 20 synonyms with 7 letters, 24 synonyms with 8 letters, 16 synonyms with 9 letters, 15 synonyms with 10 letters, 11 synonyms with 11 letters, 12 synonyms with 12 letters, 5 synonyms with 13 letters, 2 synonyms with 14 letters, 3 synonyms with 15 letters, 1 synonym with 16 letters, 1 synonym with 18 letters, and 1 synonym with 19 letters, for a total of 157 synonyms for old.

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.


Similar to old

Word Opposites Synonyms
Threshold End, limit Doorstep, sill
Hold Release, let go of Clasp, hold on to
Bold Timid, unadventurous Daring, intrepid
Told Concealed, hid Informed, notified
Cold Hot, warm, friendly Chilly, cool