geriatric

[ jer-ee-a-trik, jeer- ]
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adjective
  1. of or relating to geriatrics or old age: the hospital's geriatric ward.

  2. noting or relating to aged people or animals: geriatric patients;a geriatric pet.

  1. old, outmoded, or worn out by long use: The company is suffering from geriatric factories and manufacturing technologies.

noun
  1. Often Offensive. an aged person.

Origin of geriatric

1
First recorded in 1925–30; from Greek gér(ōn) “old man” + iatric

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British Dictionary definitions for geriatric

geriatric

/ (ˌdʒɛrɪˈætrɪk) /


adjective
  1. of or relating to geriatric medicine or to older people

  2. offensive (of people or machines) old, obsolescent, worn out, or useless

noun
  1. old-fashioned, offensive an elderly person

  2. informal, offensive an older person considered as one who may be disregarded as senile or unable to look after his or her own best interests

Origin of geriatric

1
C20: from Greek gēras old age + iatric

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