middle-aged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more middle-aged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most middle-aged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: middleaged
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: middle aged
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: middle-ag’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to middle age or a middle-ager; neither old nor young.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The person of interest is a middle-aged man seen acting strangely in the security camera's video.
The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yet middle aged.
When I was a middle-aged Man.
If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul’s Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son’s weak mind.
A middle-aged, grave and honourable man.
gloss: Characteristic of middle-aged people.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: 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.
Cowper was really mad at intervals, but his poetry, admirable as it is in its own middle-aged way, is in need of anything rather than a strait-waistcoat.
His already almost middle-aged aspect of serene sagacity.
gloss: Belonging to the Middle Ages; medieval.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: The reading and perusing of middle-ag’d Antiquities.
Of the modern and middle-aged Greek.
The English hunger bears a strong resemblance to the Spanish hambre, formed from the middle-aged Latin famina.
Derived words: middle-agedness
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: middeljarig
lang: Arabic
word: كَهْل
roman: kahl
lang: Arabic
word: كَهْلَة
roman: kahla
lang: Assamese
word: আদহীয়া
roman: adohia
lang: Assamese
word: মাজবয়সীয়া
roman: mazboyoxia
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ortayaşlı
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ortayaş
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ortabab
lang: Bengali
word: প্রৌঢ়
roman: prōuṛh
lang: Bengali
word: মধ্যবয়স্ক
roman: moddhoboẏosko
lang: Bengali
word: মাঝবয়সী
roman: majhobẏośi
lang: Bulgarian
word: на средна възраст
roman: na sredna vǎzrast
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 中年的
roman: zhōngnián de
lang: Esperanto
word: mezaĝa
lang: Estonian
word: keskealine
lang: Finnish
word: keski-ikäinen
lang: French
word: d'âge moyen
lang: French
word: entre deux âges
lang: French
word: d'âge mûr
lang: Galician
word: de mediana idade
lang: Georgian
word: შუახნის
roman: šuaxnis
lang: German
word: mittleren Alters
lang: German
word: mittelalt
lang: Hindi
word: अधेड़
roman: adheṛ
lang: Hungarian
word: középkorú
lang: Ido
word: mez-eva
lang: Indonesian
word: setengah baya
lang: Irish
word: meánaosta
lang: Irish
word: bunaosta
lang: Japanese
word: 中年
roman: chūnen
lang: Māori
word: taipakeke
lang: Māori
word: taikaumātua
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: middelaldrende
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: middelaldrande
lang: Persian
word: میانسال
roman: miyânsâl
lang: Polish
word: w średnim wieku
lang: Portuguese
word: de meia-idade
lang: Punjabi
word: ਅਧਖੜ
roman: adhakhaṛ
lang: Punjabi
word: ਅਧੇੜ
roman: adheṛ
lang: Russian
word: сре́дних лет
roman: srédnix let
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сре̏довјечан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: srȅdovječan
lang: Spanish
word: de mediana edad
lang: Swahili
word: makamo
lang: Swedish
word: medelålders
lang: Tagalog
word: balubata
lang: Tagalog
word: talubata
lang: Ukrainian
word: середнього віку
roman: serednʹoho viku
lang: Ukrainian
word: середніх літ
roman: serednix lit
lang: Urdu
word: ادھیڑ