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100 Words to Describe Age

July 23, 2026

100 Words to Describe Age

No. Item Definition
1. adolescent in the teenage stage
2. age-worn worn by age
3. aged very old
4. ageless not seeming any age
5. ancient extremely old
6. antediluvian extremely old-fashioned or old
7. baby-faced having a very young face
8. barely adult only just an adult
9. boyish like a young boy
10. callow young and inexperienced
11. centenarian person aged one hundred
12. child very young person
13. coming-of-age reaching adulthood
14. creaky showing signs of old age
15. decrepit worn out by old age
16. doddering weak and shaky with age
17. eightysomething in one’s eighties
18. elder older person
19. elderish somewhat old
20. elderly fairly old
21. feeble physically weak, often old
22. fiftysomething in one’s fifties
23. fortysomething in one’s forties
24. frail weak, often from age
25. fresh-faced looking young and healthy
26. full-grown completely grown
27. geriatric relating to old age
28. getting on becoming old
29. girlish like a young girl
30. gray-haired having gray hair
31. green young and inexperienced
32. grizzled older-looking, with gray hair
33. grown fully developed
34. hoary very old; gray-haired
35. immature not fully developed
36. in one’s prime at peak age or vigor
37. infant very young baby
38. juvenile young; not fully mature
39. late-life occurring in old age
40. legal-age old enough by law
41. lined marked with age lines
42. long in the tooth rather old
43. long-lived living to an old age
44. longevous living a long time
45. major legal adult
46. marriageable old enough to marry
47. matronly middle-aged and motherly
48. mature fully developed or adult
49. middle-aged neither young nor old
50. minor below legal adult age
51. newborn just born
52. newly adult just reached adulthood
53. nonagenarian person in their nineties
54. nubile young and sexually mature
55. octogenarian person in their eighties
56. of age legally adult
57. old having lived many years
58. oldish somewhat old
59. oldster old person
60. over-the-hill past one’s best years
61. overage older than allowed age
62. overaged older than expected or allowed
63. past-it too old to be effective
64. postpubescent after puberty
65. preadolescent before adolescence
66. prematurely old old-looking too early
67. prepubescent before puberty
68. preteen between child and teen
69. prime at the best age
70. pubescent reaching sexual maturity
71. retired past usual working age
72. ripe fully developed or mature
73. school-age old enough for school
74. senescent growing old
75. senior older in age
76. seventysomething in one’s seventies
77. silver-haired having silver-gray hair
78. sixtysomething in one’s sixties
79. superannuated too old for work
80. supercentenarian person over one hundred ten
81. teenage in the teen years
82. thirtysomething in one’s thirties
83. time-aged aged over time
84. timeworn showing effects of age
85. toddler very young child
86. twentysomething in one’s twenties
87. underage younger than legal age
88. underaged below legal age
89. up in years fairly old
90. venerable old and respected
91. weathered aged by exposure
92. well-preserved looking young for age
93. white-haired having white hair
94. wizened shriveled with age
95. wrinkled covered with wrinkles
96. young having lived few years
97. youngish somewhat young
98. youth young age or young people
99. youthful looking or seeming young
100. youthlike resembling youth

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