GERONTOCRATS Antonyms

• characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality

• of or relating to dynamics

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• an efficient incentive

• recently made, produced, or harvested

• not canned or otherwise preserved

• not containing or composed of salt water

• very recently

• (of a cycle) beginning or occurring again

• imparting vitality and energy

• original and of a kind not seen before

• having recently calved and therefore able to give milk

• with restored energy

• not soured or preserved

• free from impurities

• not yet used or soiled

• improperly forward or bold

• ahead of the times

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages

• a contemporary person

• a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

• used of a living language; being the current stage in its development

• relating to a recently developed fashion or style

• characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

• ahead of the times

• not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

• unaffected by use or exposure

• very recently

• in use after medieval times

• used of a living language; being the current stage in its development

• original and of a kind not seen before

• lacking training or experience

• having no previous example or precedent or parallel

• other than the former one(s); different

• (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

• (often followed by `to') unfamiliar

• favoring or promoting progress

• (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

• favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

• gradually advancing in extent

• (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position

• advancing in severity

• (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

• any immature animal

• United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

• young people collectively

• United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

• British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)

• United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

• English poet (1683-1765)

• United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)

• United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)

• (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

• suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

• being in its early stage

• not tried or tested by experience

• a young person (especially a young man or boy)

• young people collectively

• the time of life between childhood and maturity

• early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

• an early period of development

• the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person