Elderly
Elderly adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Usage example: elderly people who stay active are usually the healthiest and the happiest
Nearby Word: elder
Young
Young adjective - Being in the early stage of life, growth, or development.
Usage example: a young tree that will eventually reach 50 feet tall
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Moira, for example, alternates between appearing young and elderly (despite dying when she was around 30), and she often appears with one blind eye because she died from a gunshot to the eye.
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That said, most of these civilians were elderly or young children who probably would have died anyway and so these are not usually counted.
Source: Winter Warfare -
Dr. Lance Sweets, the young psychologist, was adopted at the age of six by a loving elderly couple after he had been abused as a young child (he has scars from whips on his shoulders).
Source: Dark and Troubled Past
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