over-the-hill

1. 1.

   too old to be useful

   “He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders”

   Synonymsoverageoveragedsuperannuated

   Similarold

Questions about over-the-hill

What does over-the-hill mean?

over-the-hill means "too old to be useful".

How many syllables are in over-the-hill?

over-the-hill has 4 syllables: o-ver--the--hill. The stress falls on "ver-".

What is another word for over-the-hill?

Close synonyms include overage, overaged, superannuated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is over-the-hill a common word?

over-the-hill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.