CODGER Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

codger

noun

ˈkä-jər

Definition of codger

as in eccentric

a person of odd or whimsical habits just an old codger who never harmed anyone

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Recent Examples of codger But what was served up were stale, pale sketches that seemed to have been exhumed from some old codger’s book of gags from 19 bloody 50! — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2026 My job was to conceptualize and oversee a luncheon for fifty of these luminaries—with the help of a woozy codger standing in front of me. — Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025 Popular culture’s usual parade of toothless codgers and crones increasingly seemed obsolete. — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 Otto is also suicidal — something A Man Called Otto never sufficiently dramatizes, cheapening the codger’s despair as the film prepares for the feel-good ending to come. — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024 Most residents can recite Arizona's 5 C's that have long been driven the state economy — copper, citrus, codgers and cactus candy. — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2024

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Noun

The public reckonings with these figures’ legacies—the troubled former child star gone too soon, the beloved icon, the cult favorite, the complicated eccentric—have come in a cascade.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Make sure to practice a full range of motion with these and emphasize the eccentric (the way down) part of the movement for maximal time under tension and muscle-building stimulus.

— Jakob Roze, HEALTH, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of eccentric

Noun

Grande’s character was killed off in the first season, and the series was canceled after two seasons.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026
Their characters contended with sexism, inflexible schedules, unequal pay and the near impossibility of balancing work with responsibilities at home.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of character

Noun

The engine features a flat-plane crank that Mercedes-Benz AMG said reduces rotating mass and improves revving characteristics.

— Joel Feder, The Drive, 10 Sep. 2026
In the ever more precarious world of academia, the neck of the principled luddite crank might be particularly attractive when institutions swing the axe in the next round of layoffs.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of crank

Noun

When Oscar halfheartedly tries to throw a ball into one of the set’s prop cubes and improbably makes the shot, the whole set goes joyously nuts, with the performers leaping up to embrace him and cavort around him.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
At the same time, as the Burke Museum notes, the low-lying forests of nut and beech trees the birds depended on were cleared for farmland as settlement spread west.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of nut

Noun

Halaena can tell that something’s up with mummy, but that kook’s never been too concerned with matters of court.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
After Kent’s resignation, Republican hawks denounced him as a kook and a traitor to the cause, without touching on the delicate question of why Trump appointed such a disreputable figure in the first place.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of kook

Noun

People like Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who's a Florida Republican and kind of a maverick on some issues, were tweeting very soon after this warning came out saying that Congress needed to do something.

— Dana Taylor, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
Bill Kerby, the maverick screenwriter who wrote the first draft of the Bette Midler-starring rock drama The Rose and worked on The Last American Hero, The Gravy Train and Hooper as well, has died.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of maverick

Noun

How did the weirdo pop-art side project become the go-to vessel for the Great Indie Songwriter?

— Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
Since breaking out in the tween-friendly Twilight saga twenty years ago, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have each transformed themselves into Hollywood’s most arthouse-friendly weirdos.

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of weirdo

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