doting

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent“adoring grandparents”“deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain”“hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother”Synonyms: adoring fond

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Dote \Dote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Doted; p. pr. & vb. n. Doting.] [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze, Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t?zen to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source.] [Written also doat.]

1.To act foolishly. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

He wol make him doten anon right.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

2.To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. [1913 Webster]

Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.— South.[1913 Webster]

3.To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. [1913 Webster]

Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

Doting \Dot"ing\, a. That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dot"ing*ly, adv. -- Dot"ing*ness, n. [1913 Webster]