middle-aged

B1
US /ˌmɪdl̩ˈeɪd͡ʒd/
adj Freq #11714

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Of or relating to middle age or a middle-ager; neither old nor young.

    The person of interest is a middle-aged man seen acting strangely in the security camera's video.

  2. 2
    adj

    Characteristic of middle-aged people.

    Well, perhaps that beige-on-beige color scheme may be a little middle-aged for a young artist's apartment; a little repainting won't hurt anything.

  3. 3
    adj

    Belonging to the Middle Ages; medieval.

    The reading and perusing of middle-ag’d Antiquities.

  4. 4
    adj

    being roughly between 45 and 65 years old

Thesaurus

Word family
Derived forms middle-agedness

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