Senescent

Synonyms for "senescent" (17 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Adjective(2 words)
Noun(1 words)
aging process

Strong matches (5)

Related words (8)

Adjective(2 words)
irreversible growth arrestpermanent cell cycle arrest
Noun(1 words)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

6 entries
agingbiological processbiological statecellular processcellular statephysiological process

More specific

4 entries
age related declinedeterioration with ageoncogene induced senescencestress induced senescence

Collocations

6 entries
cellular senescencesenescence associated secretory phenotypesenescence markersenescence researchsenescence therapysenescent cell

Inflections

2 entries
more senescentmost senescent

Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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The senescent man wandered away from the nursing home.

Source: tatoeba (8977947)

And now, as the night was senescent / ⁠And star-dials pointed to morn— / ⁠As the star-dials hinted of morn— / At the end of our path a liquescent / ⁠And nebulous lustre was born

Source: wiktionary

The history of philosophic opinion itself in interpreted by Dr. Hall in terms of a similar development, in which immature adolescent systems, staid senescent and blasé philosophies have appeared and appealed to their public in direct relation to the status of the culture-periods in which they found origin and favor.

Source: wiktionary

Put all of this together and one can envision a world two generations hence in which the richer parts of Europe and the Pacific Rim are senescent walled cities, instability and authoritarian decay predominate across much of Eurasia, and real dynamism is sustained mostly in the parts of America that are growing and building at the moment[…]

Source: wiktionary

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