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(colloquial) An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive)..
She was a sprightly fortysomething.
Some people console themselves with the thought that, basically, worse things happen at sea: in middle-class Britain today, particularly familied fortysomethings, it’s Chicken-Licken time.
Use forty something when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Forty something means (colloquial) An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive)..
Common synonyms include quadragenarian.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She was a sprightly fortysomething.
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