SENILE


Meaning of SENILE in English

adjective

exhibiting the weakness and loss of mental faculties often associated with old age

a senile professor now unable to lecture coherently

Synonyms: doddering, doddery, ||doted, doting

Related Word: aging, senescent; aged, ancient, old; enfeebled, feeble, weak; decrepit, doddered, shattered

Idioms: in one's second childhood

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