Synonyms for senile
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of, or relating to old age.
Related words
- Word family
- senility senilocracy senescence senior seniority
- Phrases
- senile angioma senile keratosis
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Decrepit, gray, and hoary refer to the effects of age on the body exclusively; senile upon the mind also; as, a decrepit frame, senile garrulousness. One may be aged and neither decrepit nor senile.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- aged A middle-aged woman came and sat in front of Paul.
- decrepit I think that his uncle is a decrepit old man.
- doting He was a beloved husband and a doting father.
By length
- 3 letters
- old1
- 4 letters
- aged1
- 5 letters
- anile
- 6 letters
- feeble2, infirm2, doting2, doited
- 7 letters
- doddery
- 8 letters
- decrepit3
- 9 letters
- doddering3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (feeble2 = 2 syllables).