Aged
Aged adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.
Usage example: a forest of aged and gnarled oaks
Contemporary is an antonym for aged.
Nearby Word: age
Contemporary
Contemporary adjective - Being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles.
Usage example: a magazine devoted to contemporary fashions
Aged is an antonym for contemporary.
Both words in one sentence
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The Dinette Set depicts the misadventures of a group of vapid, boorish, self-absorbed, materialistic, overweight, middle-aged clods as representative of contemporary suburban Middle America.
Source: This Loser Is You -
This 1992 action classic has aged very gracefully, and boasts action very few contemporary films can match up to.
Source: Film / Hard Boiled - Music which sounds suspiciously like a popular and "rebellious" contemporary form of music if the aliens are teenagers (or the alien-aged equivalent of teenagers.)
Source: Future Music
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