UPSTARTS Antonyms

• brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established

• settled securely and unconditionally

• conforming with accepted standards

• shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt

• introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation

• the body of people who lead a group

• a serviceman who has seen considerable active service

• a person who has served in the armed forces

• an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service

• rendered competent through trial and experience

• a person who is older than you are

• any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

• any of various church officers

• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

• a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

• having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

• of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood

• engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood

• of or relating to or suitable as a profession

• characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession

• of or relating to a profession

• a person engaged in one of the learned professions

• an athlete who plays for pay

• an authority qualified to teach apprentices

• engaged in by members of a profession

• older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service

• an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

• a person who is older than you are

• used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college

• advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

• one who adheres to traditional views

• stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded