Word Meanings - OLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Open country. See World. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OLD)

• Aged
• Old
• ancient
• antiquated
• elderly
• senile
• patriarchal
• primeval
• time-honored
• olden
• Ancient
• oldfashioned
• antique
• obsolete
• old-time
• aged
• primordial
• immemorial
• Grotesque
• Whimsical
• quaint
• old
• burlesque
• archaic
• caricatured
• distorted

Related words: (words related to OLD)

• PRIMORDIALLY
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• ANTIQUATION
  The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• OBSOLETENESS
  Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
• ANTIQUATED
  Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
• OBSOLETE
  Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See Ancient. (more info) 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
• ANTIQUENESS
  The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.
• PRIMORDIAL
  A first principle or element.
• ARCHAICAL
  Archaic. -- Ar*cha"ic*al*ly, adv.
• DISTORTIVE
  Causing distortion.
• SENILE
  Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle. Senile gangrene , a form of gangrene occuring particularly
• GROTESQUE
  1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. Dryden. 2. Artificial grotto-work.
• ANTIQUELY
  In an antique manner.
• PRIMEVAL
  Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.
• BURLESQUER
  One who burlesques.
• CARICATURIST
  One who caricatures.
• BURLESQUE
  1. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among
• QUAINT
  pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for 1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer. 2. Characterized
• ANTIQUE
  1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser. 2. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern
• ENCOLDEN
  To render cold.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• VERD ANTIQUE
  A mottled-green serpentine marble. A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• YOLDEN
  Yielded.
• PREACQUAINT
  To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.
• EMBOLDENER
  One who emboldens.
• IMBOLDEN
  See EMBOLDEN