Old Synonyms

Old synonyms such as "antiquated, advanced in years, antiquated, antique, ancient, erstwhile, age-old, and antediluvian". Old is an adjective, and its antonyms are new and modern. Here are 163 another word for old with example sentences.

Another word for Old

1. elderly

  • venerable
  • up in years
  • superannuated
  • septuagenarian
  • senior
  • senile
  • senescent
  • ripe
  • past one's prime
  • past it
  • over the hill
  • older
  • octogenarian
  • not long for this world
  • not as young as one was
  • no spring chicken
  • nonagenarian
  • mature
  • long in the tooth
  • longevous
  • in one's dotage
  • hoary
  • grizzled
  • grey-haired
  • grey-bearded
  • grey
  • getting on
  • elderly
  • doddery
  • doddering
  • decrepit
  • centenarian
  • ancient
  • aged
  • advanced in years

2. historic

  • tumbledown
  • run down
  • ramshackle
  • historic
  • disintegrating
  • dilapidated
  • decaying
  • crumbling
  • broken-down
  • antiquated

3. worn

  • yellowed
  • worn out
  • worn
  • vintage
  • veteran
  • torn
  • threadbare
  • tatty
  • tattered
  • shabby
  • ragged
  • patched
  • out of date
  • outmoded
  • old-fashioned
  • moth-eaten
  • holey
  • hand-me-down
  • frayed
  • démodé
  • cast-off
  • antique

4. bygone

  • remote
  • primordial
  • primeval
  • previous
  • prehistoric
  • past
  • olden
  • of old
  • medieval
  • immemorial
  • former
  • forgotten
  • early
  • earliest
  • earlier
  • classical
  • bygone
  • antediluvian
  • ancient

5. former

6. hackneyed

  • worn out
  • wonted
  • usual
  • unoriginal
  • unimaginative
  • trite
  • tired
  • time-worn
  • time-honoured
  • superannuated
  • stock
  • stereotyped
  • stale
  • set
  • run-of-the-mill
  • routine
  • ritualistic
  • ritual
  • prosaic
  • played out
  • platitudinous
  • pedestrian
  • passé
  • overworked
  • overused
  • out of the ark
  • out of date
  • outmoded
  • outdated
  • old hat
  • old-world
  • old-time
  • old-fashioned
  • obsolete
  • long-standing
  • long-lived
  • long-established
  • lasting
  • hoary
  • historic
  • hacky
  • hackneyed
  • hack
  • habitual
  • fuddy-duddy
  • folk
  • fixed
  • familiar
  • extinct
  • established
  • enduring
  • derivative
  • defunct
  • cut and dried
  • customary
  • corny
  • conventional
  • commonplace
  • common
  • clichéd
  • banal
  • archaic
  • antwacky
  • antiquated
  • antediluvian
  • ancestral
  • age-old

How to Use old in a Sentence

An old book lay gathering dust.

Do you recognize this old place?

Eating that old food was a bad idea.

His old jacket smelled like rain.

She wore her old necklace proudly.

The old house stood abandoned silently.

We walked past the old house.