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🧑‍🦳 About forty years old 🔢 About forty in number
fortyish

fortyish

3.4
About forty in total
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɔrtiɪʃ/
  • Informal
translation icon : aproximadamente cuarenta
  • There were fortyish students attending the workshop on Saturday morning.

Examples

  • She looked fortyish, though her energy made her seem much younger.

  • She looks fortyish but is actually younger.

  • The group was fortyish in size, making it easy for everyone to participate in the discussion.

  • There were fortyish people at the meeting.

  • The group of friends celebrating together are all fortyish and reminiscing about their youth.

  • He is fortyish, with a few gray hairs starting to show in his otherwise dark hair.

  • At the reunion, most attendees were fortyish, recalling the good old days of high school.

Synonyms

fortysomething
vsfortyish
1 3.2

Being between forty and forty-nine years old

refers to an approximate age near forty rather than a full decade

How Close

forty
644 1.0
fortyish
  • Informal
3.4

Surface Forms

fortyish positive

Morphology

fortyish = forty (transparent) = forty + ish

Regular derivation: '-ish' added to a numeral to indicate approximate quantity.

Etymology

Fortyish combines forty and the ending -ish, which means 'approximately' or 'about', the same way greenish means 'a little green'. So fortyish means 'around forty' in number, amount, or age.