Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

The word "elderly" can be used as noun, adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

live in retirement home receive medicare

Derived Terms

elderliness elderly care illderly nonelderly unelderly wellderly

Derived From

elder

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

age bracket age group anthropic cohort old

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

By degree: By gender: By reference to hair: By reference to skin: gray gray-haired grey grey-haired grizzled grizzly hoary matronly prune-faced shriveled-up silver-haired silvery-haired suprageriatric white-haired wizened wrinkled wrinkled-up wrinkly wrizled

Related Terms

elder old

Similar Terms

old old

Synonym Network

aged old

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.