middle-aged

adjectif

1. 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.

   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.

2. 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.

   His already almost middle-aged aspect of serene sagacity.

3. 3

   obsolèteBelonging to the Middle Ages; medieval.

   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.

Formes

comparatif

more middle-aged

superlatif

most middle-aged