Dotard

//ˈdəʊ.təd//

Synonyms for "dotard" (54 found)

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Translations

22 translations across 16 languages.

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Bulgarian

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  • изкуфял старец noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 老糊塗 /老糊涂 noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Esperanto

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  • kadukulo noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Finnish

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  • höppänä noun (old person with impaired intellect)
  • vanhuudenhöperö noun (old person with impaired intellect)

French

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  • radoteur noun (old person with impaired intellect)

German

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  • Senile noun (old person with impaired intellect)
  • Seniler noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Hungarian

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  • trotty noun (old person with impaired intellect)
  • vén szivar noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Italian

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  • bacucco noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Japanese

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  • 老い耄れ noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Korean

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  • 늙다리 noun (old person with impaired intellect)
  • 늙다리미치광이 noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Norman

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  • r'doteux noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Persian

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  • خرفت noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Polish

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  • ramol noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Russian

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  • маразма́тик noun (old person with impaired intellect)
  • ста́рый дура́к noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Spanish

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  • chocho noun (old person with impaired intellect)
  • gagá noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Tagalog

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  • ulyanin noun (old person with impaired intellect)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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Dotard, (ſaide he) let be thy deepe aduiſe; Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile, And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wiſe, Els neuer ſhould thy iudgement be ſo frayle, To meaſure manhood by the ſword or mayle.

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I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole, As vnder priuiledge of age to bragge, What I haue done being yong, or what would doe, Were I not old, […]

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The man who had ſome virtue whilſt he was ſtruggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow; and, when the lover is not loſt in the huſband, the dotard, a prey to childiſh caprices, and fond jealouſies, neglects the ſerious duties of life, and the careſſes which ſhould excite confidence in his children are laviſhed on the overgrown child, his wife.

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Lawns, houses, chattels, groves, and fields, All that the fertile valley shields; Wages of folly--baits of crime, Of life's uneasy game the stake, Playthings that keep the eyes awake Of drowsy, dotard Time;—

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