Home › Words › E › eightysomethingeightysomethingeightysomething means A person between 80 and 89 years old.EtymologyFrom eighty + -something.nounA person between 80 and 89 years old.e.g.“She was a sprightly eightysomething.”numAn indeterminate value between 80 (inclusive) and 90 (exclusive).e.g.“There in the doorway stood an eightysomething Las Vegas showgirl.” — 2006, Laura Levine, The PMS Murder, page 52:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.octogenarian 75% match — Synonym of eightysomething: a person between 80 and 89 years old. vs eightysomething →eightyish 72% match — Approximately eighty vs eightysomething →nonagenarian 71% match — Synonym of ninetysomething: a person between 90 and 99 years old. vs eightysomething →fortysomething 66% match — An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive). vs eightysomething →octogenarianism 65% match — The state or condition of being an octogenarian. vs eightysomething →sixtyish 62% match — Of about sixty years of age. vs eightysomething →seventyish 62% match — Of about seventy years of age. vs eightysomething →septuagenarian 61% match — Synonym of seventysomething: a person between 70 and 79 years old. vs eightysomething →