doddering

doddering
Synonyms and related words:
aged, anile, childish, childlike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dilapidated, doddered, doddery, doited, doting, faltering, feeble, fossilized, frail, gerontal, gerontic, groggy, infirm, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, old, palsied, papery-skinned, quaking, quavering, quivering, ramshackle, ravaged with age, reeling, ricketish, rickety, rocky, run to seed, rusty, senile, shaking, shaky, shriveled, spidery, spindly, staggering, stricken in years, superannuated, teetering, teetery, timeworn, tottering, tottery, trembling, trembly, tumbledown, unsteady, weak, withered, wizened, wobbly

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  • doddering — adj. 1. shaking as from old age. Syn: doddery, shaking, tottering, tottery. [WordNet 1.5] 2. mentally or physically infirm with age. Syn: gaga, senile. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • doddering — UK [ˈdɒdərɪŋ] / US [ˈdɑdərɪŋ] or doddery UK [ˈdɒdərɪ] / US [ˈdɑdərɪ] adjective shaking slightly when you are walking or moving, especially because you are old …   English dictionary

  • doddering — [adj] aged, feeble anile, decrepit, dotard, faltering, floundering, infirm, senile, shaky, tottering, trembling, unsteady, weak; concepts 314,488,578,797 Ant. agile, young, youthful …   New thesaurus

  • doddering — [däd′ər iŋ] adj. shaky, tottering, or senile …   English World dictionary

  • doddering — [[t]dɒ̱dərɪŋ[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n (disapproval) If you refer to someone as a doddering old man or woman, you are saying in a disrespectful way that they are old and not strong. ...a doddering old man making his will before he s too senile. Syn:… …   English dictionary

  • doddering — /dod euhr ing/, adj. shaky or trembling, as from old age; tottering: a doddering old man. Also, doddery /dod euh ree/. [1735 45; DODDER1 + ING2] * * * …   Universalium

  • doddering — dod|der|ing [ˈdɔdərıŋ US ˈda: ] adj shaking slightly and walking with difficulty because of old age ▪ a doddering old man >dodder v [I] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • doddering — (= doddery), adjective a doddering patient who needs constant supervision Syn: tottering, tottery, staggering, shuffling, shambling, faltering, shaky, unsteady, wobbly; feeble, frail, weak …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • doddering — dodder ► VERB ▪ be slow and unsteady. DERIVATIVES dodderer noun doddering adjective doddery adjective. ORIGIN variant of obsolete dialect dadder; related to DITHER(Cf. ↑dithery) …   English terms dictionary

  • doddering — adjective mentally or physically infirm with age his mother was doddering and frail • Syn: ↑doddery, ↑gaga, ↑senile • Similar to: ↑old • Derivationally related forms: ↑senility …   Useful english dictionary

  • doddering dillies — kiškio ašarėlės statusas T sritis vardynas atitikmenys: lot. Briza media angl. common quaking grass; cowquake; doddering dillies; intermediate quaking grass; perennial quaking grass; trembling grass vok. Flittergras; gemeines Zittergras;… …   Dekoratyvinių augalų vardynas

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