NONAGENARIAN Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

nonagenarian

adjective

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as in octogenarian

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Recent Examples of nonagenarian The Venice Film Festival will pay tribute to nonagenarian Italian director Tinto Brass at its upcoming edition with a pre-opening screening of his London-shot 1967 pop thriller Deadly Sweet starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 June 2026 He and Chen are joined by New York bassist David Wong and Los Angeles drummer Roy McCurdy, whose induction into the nonagenarian club comes November 28. — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 25 June 2026 In other interviews, the nonagenarian Oscar winner has reflected more broadly on motherhood and work-life balance. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 23 June 2026 But some doubt that the nonagenarian Castro, who turns 95 in June, will ever be brought to justice in the United States. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026 The nonagenarian daughter of a doctor born into slavery, celebrating the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. — Carol Quillen, Time, 21 Feb. 2026 This isn’t the first snap of the nonagenarian star with Raisin Bran to surface this week. — Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 22 Jan. 2026 That summer saw the Rio Olympics and a particularly spectacular Trooping the Colour as the nation gathered to toast to Her Majesty's nonagenarian milestone. — Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026 The most important person in this book is Chang's nonagenarian mother, to whom the book is dedicated and whom Chang has been unable to visit in China since 2018. — Emily Feng, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026

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Of course, this horrid wave of diarrhea-inflicting illness wasn’t dumped from the sky by a crown-sporting octogenarian president zooming around in a fighter jet.

— Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 20 Aug. 2026
The song, from Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail, which some octogenarian readers may remember arriving three days early through an app for the first million Samsung Galaxy owners, had already begun to creep into the younger generation’s consciousness.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of octogenarian

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Did anyone suggest that, for a septuagenarian with many months of shows ahead around the world, including two homecoming runs through Canada, leaving the ground might not be the best idea?

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Directed by Bai Xue, the crowd-pleasing drama, released in China last month, stars Yeoh as a septuagenarian who discovers a late-life gift for speedcubing, or competitive puzzle-solving.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of septuagenarian

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Lally has been named as one of 48 centenarian ambassadors still alive today who were born in Ireland between 1920 and 1926 and whose names appear on the official census records that were released by the Irish National Archives in April.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
Healthy habits, like those in the centenarian survey, can bolster longevity by reducing the forces that age us, such as chronic inflammation, blood vessel damage, mitochondrial decline, muscle loss, and stress, Weiss said.

— Kristen Fischer, Health, 11 May 2026

Definition of centenarian

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Rezaei was named this month as part of senior appointments widely seen as hardening Tehran’s political and military stance.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Rezaei was a senior commander during the war with Iraq in the 1980s — a foundational moment in the creation of the Islamic Republic.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026

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Its contents range from 19th-century anti-aging pills, to biologist Charles Darwin’s walking stick, to striking nude self-portraits by then-sexagenarian British photographer John Coplans.

— Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
Who knew if these roles were flukes — one-offs, novelties — or if Jerry Adler would defy the odds stacked up against any actor, much less a sexagenarian new to the game, and continue to find work in his newfound profession.

— Howard Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025

Definition of sexagenarian

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