different between senile vs doddery
senile
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French senile, from Latin sen?lis (“of or pertaining to old age”), from senex (“old man”), from Gaulish and Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?si?na?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sina?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
senile (comparative more senile, superlative most senile)
- Of, or relating to old age.
- (often offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
Antonyms
- juvenile
Derived terms
Related terms
- senate
- senator
- senescence
- senility
- senior
- seniority
Translations
Noun
senile (plural seniles)
- (dated, medicine) A person who is senile.
Further reading
- senile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- senile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Inslee, enisle, ensile, lienes, silene
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
senile
- inflection of senil:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Etymology
From Latin sen?lis.
Adjective
senile (plural senili)
- senile
Related terms
- senilità
Anagrams
- lesine
Latin
Adjective
sen?le
- nominative neuter singular of sen?lis
- accusative neuter singular of sen?lis
- vocative neuter singular of sen?lis
Old French
Etymology
From Latin sen?lis
Adjective
senile m (oblique and nominative feminine singular senile)
- relating to old age
Declension
Descendants
- ? English: senile
- French: sénile
senile From the web:
- what senile means
- what senile dementia
- what senile cataract
- what senile means in tagalog
- what's senile atrophy
- what's senile degeneration
- what's senile decay
- what's senile nuclear sclerosis
doddery
English
Etymology
dodder +? -y
Adjective
doddery (comparative more doddery, superlative most doddery)
- Doddering, trembly, shaky.
- 1994, Laurie R King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
- That is not to say that he became a doddery old man — far from it. He was just a bit thoughtful at times, and I would catch him looking at me pensively...
- 1999, Terence Rattigan, Benoît Delhomme, David Mamet, The Winslow Boy
- The old boy's so doddery now he can hardly finish the course at all. I timed him today. It took him seventy-five seconds...
- 1994, Laurie R King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Translations
doddery From the web:
- doddery meaning
- what does doddering mean
- what does doddery
- what do doddery meaning
- doddery definition
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