Senile

/ˈsinaɪl/

Synonyms for "senile" (70 found)

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Closest matches (14)

aged aging ancient anile childish childlike crabbed debilitated declining decrepit

Adjective(4 words)

Strong matches (21)

doddered doddering doddery doited dotard doting dotty enfeebled failing feeble fogy fogyish forgetful fossilizedfuddy duddyfuddy-duddy

Adjective(5 words)

doddering doddery elderly forgetful gaga

Related words (35)

Adjective(3 words)

geriatric insulting pejorative

gerontal gerontic infirm mossbackedmoth eatenmoth-eaten mummylike oldold fartold fogyold-fogy old-fogyish palsied papery-skinnedravaged with agericketyrun to seedrusty senescent shaky

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shattered shriveled simple stodgystricken in yearsstuffy timeworn tottering tottery weak withered wizened

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

6 entries

age related traitaging related statecognitive conditioninsultmental statepejorative term

More specific

8 entries

age related changesconfused demented elderly epithet forgetfulold age featuresslur

Collocations

5 entries

senile amnesiasenile behaviorsenile declinesenile dementiasenile disorder

Inflections

2 entries

more senilemost senile

Derivations

1 entries

senility

similar

1 entries

old

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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He had grown senile recently.

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Grandfather is quite senile.

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It's better to go senile while you're still young. It'll save you the trouble of having to do it later.

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He's gone senile.

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