Synonyms for older
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1. aged, elderly, older, senioradjective

   advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

   "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"

   Synonyms:
   aged, senior(a), old, cured, sr., elderly, elder, ripened, senior, aged(a), of age(p), fourth-year

   Antonyms:
   immature, young, junior, inexperienced, inexperient

2. elder, older, sr.adjective

   used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

   "Bill Adams, Sr."

   Synonyms:
   senior, aged, old, sr., elder, elderly

   Antonyms:
   inexperienced, inexperient, young, immature, junior

3. old, olderadjective

   skilled through long experience

   "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"

   Synonyms:
   quondam(a), elder, previous(a), senior, old, sr., old(a), former(a), one-time(a), honest-to-god, erstwhile(a), honest-to-goodness, onetime(a), aged, sure-enough(a), sometime(a), elderly

   Antonyms:
   immature, young, inexperienced, inexperient, junior

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1. olderadjective

   Synonyms:
   senior, elder

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1. List of paraphrases for "older":

   elderly, oldest, age, old, ageing, aged, seniors, elder, senior, more, old-age, previous, elders

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1. Chief Executive Wolfgang Driese:

   Many older, less energy efficient bulkers (vessels) are avoiding scrappage and that will weigh on charter rates. Same goes for container ships.

2. Brent Forester:

   The longer I've done this work, and the longer that I've worked with older adults in particular, the more I think of psychiatric illness as not a brain disorder, but as a whole-body disorder.

3. Ty Burrell:

   They are 8 and 10. We just felt like we would wait until they were a little bit older, most of that stuff goes over their head anyway. But also it was just weird for them to watch dad on the television... it was really fun. It actually lightened the mood for my wife and I to have them laughing at everybody's ridiculousness. It kind of helped with the melancholy aspect of saying goodbye to the show and my fictional family.

4. Grant Williamson:

   There's pure demand for their facilities. Obviously the population just keeps getting older and more and more of the elderly are looking at that kind of accommodation.

5. Ariana Javidi:

   As a young woman who supports Bernie Sanders, I'm frustrated and outraged by being constantly attacked by older feminists for my refusal to vote according to my gender, like my fellow young feminist women, I recognize that voting for a woman because she's a woman is sexist, just like voting for a man because he's a man is also sexist.