1. elderly

adjective. ['ˈɛldɝli'] advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables).

Rhymes with Elderly

• ackerly
• baggerly
• beverly
• bitterly
• brierly
• brotherly
• byerly
• casserly
• caverly
• cheverly
• circularly
• cleverly
• coberly
• conerly
• connerly
• disorderly
• dubberly
• eagerly
• easterly
• eatherly

How do you pronounce elderly?

Pronounce elderly as ˈɛldərli.

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Sentences with elderly

1. Adjective
These are also easy for the elderly to put together.

Quotes about elderly

1. There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible."The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
- Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

2. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

3. the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
- Andy Rooney

2. elderly

noun. ['ˈɛldɝli'] people who are old collectively.