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  • 71antediluvian — adj 1. primeval, primal, prehistoric, preglacial, preadamic, Noachian, Noachic, Noachical; eolithic, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, before the Flood or Deluge; primary, prime, pristine, early, earliest, initial, first; autochthonal,… …

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  • 72fogyish — Synonyms and related words: backward, conservative, die hard, fuddy duddy, nonprogressive, old fashioned, old fogy, old fogyish, old line, opposed to change, preservative, ravaged with age, right wing, senile, standpat, stodgy, stuffy,… …

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  • 73stuffy — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, accordant, airless, anal, arid, arrogant, authoritarian, bad, bad smelling, barren, bigot, bigoted, blah, blank, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, borne, bourgeois, breathless, breezeless,… …

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  • 74conservative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unprogressive; moderate; protective; unchanging, stable; reactionary, mossback, diehard, Tory. See permanence. Ant., liberal, radical. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. traditional, reactionary,… …

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  • 75elder — adj 1. older, senior, of greater years, more advanced in age. 2. higher ranking, ranking, superior, chief, preeminent, paramount, foremost, primary, prime, principal. 3. earlier, former, prior, previous, bygone. n 4. senior, superior, master,… …

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  • 76mossback — n Informal. 1. old fogy, square toes, Inf. stick in the mud, Inf. fud or fuddy duddy or old fuddy duddy, Inf. fossil, Inf. antique, Inf. relic, Inf. back number, Inf. dodo. 2. conservative, ultraconservative, diehard, reactionary, old liner, Inf …

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  • 77fuddy-duddy — [n] fussy person fussbudget, fusspot*, old fogy*, old geezer*, old poop*, square*, stick in the mud*, stuffed shirt*; concept 423 …

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  • 78mossback — [n] old fashioned person conservative, fuddy duddy*, geezer*, old fogy*, old geezer*, square*; concept 424 …

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  • 79stick-in-the-mud — noun Date: 1733 one who is slow, old fashioned, or unprogressive; especially an old fogy …

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  • 80ruin — Synonyms and related words: Waterloo, abuse, afterglow, afterimage, ancient manuscript, annihilate, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, assault, atrophy, attack, baffle, balance, balk, bane, bankrupt, bankruptcy, barbarize, batter, beat, beat …

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