'Senile' definitions:
Definition of 'senile'
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Definition of 'Senile'
From: GCIDE
- Senile \Se"nile\, a. [L. senilis, from senex, gen. senis, old, an old man: cf. F. s['e]nile. See Senior.] Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'senile'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aged,
- aging,
- ancient,
- anile,
- childish,
- childlike,
- crabbed,
- debilitated,
- declining,
- decrepit,
- doddered,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- doited,
- dotard,
- doting,
- dotty,
- enfeebled,
- failing,
- feeble,
- fogy,
- fogyish,
- forgetful,
- fossilized,
- fuddy-duddy,
- gerontal,
- gerontic,
- infirm,
- mossbacked,
- moth-eaten,
- mummylike,
- old,
- old fart,
- old fogy,
- old-fogy,
- old-fogyish,
- palsied,
- papery-skinned,
- ravaged with age,
- rickety,
- run to seed,
- rusty,
- senescent,
- shaky,
- shattered,
- shriveled,
- simple,
- stodgy,
- stricken in years,
- stuffy,
- timeworn,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- weak,
- withered,
- wizened