nineties

About 1.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun plural of ninety
2. noun The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
3. noun The range between 90 and 99.

   My ideal bracket of temperature ranges from the sixties up to the nineties.

4. noun The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
5. adjective From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).

   I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.

Similar words

mid-nineties eighties seventies sixties twenties thirties forties fifties ninetysomething oughties

Often followed by

and the of was were in to that when

Word family

90 ninetieth ninetieths ninety