middle-aged

[mid-l-eyjd]

adjective

1. being of the age intermediate between youth and old age, roughly between 45 and 65.

2. characteristic of or suitable for persons of this age.

middle-aged

adjective

1. of, relating to, or being in the time in a person's life between youth and old age

Other Word Forms

• middle-agedly adverb
• middle-agedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of middle-aged¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

Mr. Guadagnino also indulges a couple of speeches about young people’s alleged hypersensitivity that veer into trite middle-aged lament and aren’t really relevant to the action.

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They have grown particularly popular with middle-aged women.

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Skateboarding as a middle-aged woman is often a lesson in abject humiliation.

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She went onto play a lonely, middle-aged department store clerk tipped into a relationship with a kinky podiatrist in Bennett's Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet.

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The corpses proved to be insufficient surrogates for Gein, who later devolved into murdering middle-aged women who reminded him of his mother.

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