Englishelderly
adjective
she has an elderly mother in a nursing home:
aged, old, mature, older, senior, ancient, venerable;
advanced in years, getting on, ageing;
in one's dotage, long in the tooth, as old as the hills;
grey, grey-haired, grey-bearded, grizzled, hoary;
past one's prime, not as young as one was, not as young as one used to be;
decrepit, doddering, doddery, not long for this world, senile, superannuated;
septuagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian;
informal past it, over the hill, no spring chicken;
formal senescent;
rare longevous.
▷antonyms young.
noun
(the elderly)
purpose-built accommodation for the elderly:
old people, older people, elderly people, elders, geriatrics, senior citizens, (old-age) pensioners, OAPs, retired people;
North American seniors, retirees, golden agers;
informal (golden) oldies, wrinklies;
North American, informal oldsters, woopies.
▷antonyms the young.
elderly Oxford Dictionary of English