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[syn: doddering, doddery, gaga, senile]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Senile \Se"nile\, a. [L. senilis, from senex, gen. senis, old,
an old man: cf. F. s['e]nile. See Senior.]
Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or
characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of
old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment."
--Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring
particularly in old people, and caused usually by
insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls
of the smaller arteries.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
senile
adj 1: mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was
doddering and frail" [syn: doddering, doddery,
gaga, senile]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "senile":
aged, aging, ancient, anile, childish, childlike, crabbed,
debilitated, declining, decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery,
doited, dotard, doting, dotty, enfeebled, failing, feeble, fogy,
fogyish, forgetful, fossilized, fuddy-duddy, gerontal, gerontic,
infirm, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, old, old fart, old fogy,
old-fogy, old-fogyish, palsied, papery-skinned, ravaged with age,
rickety, run to seed, rusty, senescent, shaky, shattered,
shriveled, simple, stodgy, stricken in years, stuffy, timeworn,
tottering, tottery, weak, withered, wizened