geriatric

6 definitions • 7 examples

for or relating to old people:

a geriatric hospital/ward/nurse

old and weak:

Who's going to elect a geriatric President?

an old person:

a clinic for the care of geriatrics

someone who is old and weak:

They were a bunch of hopeless geriatrics.

relating to the medical care and treatment of old people:

geriatric medicine/patients

often disapproving Geriatric also means old:

This place attracts a geriatric crowd.

Ballplayers are geriatric at 36.