Antonyms for been around
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uh-round |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈraʊnd |
- activated
- amateur
- current
- easy
- enchanted
- encouraged
- enthusiastic
- excited
- fresh
- green
- ignorant
- immaterial
- immature
- incapable
- incompetent
- inept
- inexperienced
- kind
- low
- modern
- naive
- new
- otherworldly
- recent
- religious
- simple
- slow
- unable
- uncool
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- unfamiliar
- unknowledgeable
- unrefined
- unripe
- unseasoned
- unskilled
- unskillful
- unsophisticated
- untalented
- untrained
- unused
- up-to-date
- young
- youth
- youthful
Definition of been around
Origin :- c.1300, "in circumference," from phrase on round. Rare before 1600. In sense of "here and there with no fixed direction" it is 1776, American English (properly about). Of time, from 1888. To have been around "gained worldly experience" is from 1927, U.S. colloquial.
- As in jaded : adj exhausted, indifferent
- As in not born yesterday : adj experienced
- As in seasoned : adj experienced
- As in sophisticated : adj cosmopolitan, cultured
- As in veteran : adj experienced, seasoned
- As in worldly : adj sophisticated, materialistic
- As in aged : adj old
- As in elderly : adj in old age
- As in experienced : adj knowledgeable, knowing
- As in ancient : adj old, often very old
Synonyms for been around
- accomplished
- accustomed
- adept
- adult
- age-old
- aged
- aging
- ancient
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- antique
- archaic
- artificial
- avaricious
- back number
- battle-scarred
- been around
- been there
- blah
- blasé
- bored
- broken in
- bygone
- callous
- canny
- capable
- citified
- competent
- cool
- cosmopolitan
- couth
- covetous
- creaky
- cultivated
- cunning
- cynical
- declining
- disciplined
- disenchanted
- disillusioned
- done it all
- dulled
- dynamite
- early
- elderly
- exercised
- experienced
- expert
- fagged
- familiar
- fatigued
- fed up
- few miles on
- fossil
- from way back
- getting on
- grasping
- gray
- greedy
- had it
- hardened
- having something on the ball
- hoary
- in
- in the know
- instructed
- into
- inured
- jaded
- jet-set
- knowing
- knowing one's stuff
- knowing the score
- knowledgeable
- knows one's stuff
- laid-back
- long in tooth
- long-serving
- long-time
- lot of mileage
- mature
- matured
- mellow
- mondaine
- moth-eaten
- no spring chicken
- not born yesterday
- obsolete
- of the old school
- old
- old goat
- old hand
- old-fashioned
- old-time
- olden
- older
- oldie
- on last leg
- on the ball
- on to
- opportunistic
- out-of-date
- outmoded
- over the hill
- passé
- power-loving
- practical
- practiced
- prepared
- primal
- primeval
- primordial
- pro
- professional
- proficient
- qualified
- refined
- relic
- remote
- retired
- rounded
- rusty
- sated
- satiated
- savvy
- schooled
- seasoned
- self-centered
- selfish
- senescent
- senior citizen
- sharp
- shot
- sick of
- skeptical
- skilled
- skillful
- smooth
- sophisticated
- spent
- sport
- stagy
- steady
- streetwise
- studied
- suave
- superannuated
- surfeited
- svelte
- switched on
- tested
- the right stuff
- timeworn
- tired
- tired-out
- toughened
- trained
- tried
- unbelieving
- unprincipled
- up to here
- up to speed
- uptown
- urbane
- venerable
- versed
- vet
- veteran
- wearied
- weary
- weathered
- well-bred
- well-versed
- wise
- wise to
- wise to ways
- wised up
- with it
- world-weary
- worldly
- worldly wise
- worldly-wise
- worn
- worn-down
- worn-out
- worse for wear
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