Meaning & use
ageless person
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Meanings
phrasecountableapproving
Someone who looks or seems the same age over many years and never appears to grow old.
Grammar: Countable phrase: an ageless person, ageless people.
Patterns
- an ageless person who …
- look ageless
- remain ageless
My aunt is an ageless person who still looks the same as she did twenty years ago.
Photographs show an ageless person whose face barely changed across five decades.
People often call her an ageless person because of her smooth skin and lively manner.
phrasecountablefigurative
Someone whose attitude, ideas, or style do not belong to one particular period and stay appealing.
Grammar: Used about character or style rather than looks; often in writing.
Patterns
- an ageless person in style
- an ageless person with a timeless quality
As a designer she is an ageless person, dressing in a way that never goes out of fashion.
He is an ageless person in spirit, joking with teenagers and pensioners alike.
Common combinations
- look ageless
- With that haircut, she looks completely ageless.
- an ageless beauty
- The actress was praised as an ageless beauty.
- seemingly ageless
- The singer seems ageless on stage.
- ageless style
- Her ageless style appeals to every generation.
Synonyms and how they differ
- timeless
- Timeless describes things like design or music that never date; ageless usually describes a person's appearance.
- youthful
- Youthful means looking young; ageless means looking the same age, which may not be young at all.
- evergreen
- Evergreen is used mainly of songs or ideas that stay popular, not of people.
Opposites
Word family
- ageless adjective
- never seeming to grow old
- agelessly adverb
- in a way that never seems to age
- agelessness noun
- the quality of never seeming to grow old
Commonly confused: ageless person or old?
ageless person vs old
Old simply means having lived a long time. Ageless means appearing not to change with age, so an ageless person may actually be quite old.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'ageless person' most naturally?
Choose one answer.
Ageless person describes a human who seems not to age, so option A fits. The others wrongly use the phrase for objects or for a newborn, where age is not the point.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “ageless person”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.