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middle-aged
/ˌmɪdl̩ˈeɪd͡ʒd/
adj 3
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3(adj.)
VERBS
be, feel, look
My father looks middle-aged now, even though he's only just turned forty.
become
ADV
prematurely
Definitions
adj
1
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.
The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yet middle aged.
2
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.
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.
3
Belonging to the Middle Ages; medieval.
The reading and perusing of middle-ag’d Antiquities.
Of the modern and middle-aged Greek.
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The person of interest is a middle-aged man seen acting strangely in the security camera's video.
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The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yet middle aged.
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When I was a middle-aged Man.
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The middle-aged women kept talking loudly all the way.
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The majority of the middle-aged people felt anxiety for their future.
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She was a middle-aged urban professional.
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