Crossword clues for senile
senile
- Infirm with age
- Declining due to age
- Beyond mere forgetfulness
- Showing signs of decline
- Like Homer Simpson's father
- Lacking reason
- Lacking marbles?
- Having an old-age problem
- Forgetful, maybe
- Forgetful, in a way
- Deteriorating from old age
- Declining from old age
- Beyond the age of reason
- Beyond merely forgetful
- Suffering from dementia
- Showing signs of dementia
- Showing sign of decline
- Showing one's years
- Ravaged by age
- Out of it due to age
- Of old age
- No longer all there
- In one's second childhood
- Declining in old age
- Beyond forgetful
- Failing
- More than forgetful
- Addled by age
- Dotty, perhaps
- Having lost it
- Not thinking well
- Declining, in a way
- In one's dotage
- Softheaded
- Having some memory problems
- Definitely past one's mental peak
- Doting
- Beyond reason?
- Dotard
- Anagram of ENISLE
- Gerontological
- Mentally infirm
- Eroded, as a river
- Like some nonagenarians
- Declining in later years
- Doddering
- 90% off?
- Losing mental powers
- European railways turnover weakened with age
- Showing signs of age
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "suited to old age," from French sénile (16c.), from Latin senilis "of old age," from senex (genitive senis) "old, old man," from PIE root *sen- "old" (cognates: Sanskrit sanah "old;" Avestan hana- "old;" Old Persian hanata- "old age, lapse of time;" Armenian hin "old;" Greek enos "old, of last year;" Lithuanian senas "old," senis "an old man;" Gothic sineigs "old" (used only of persons), sinistra "elder, senior;" Old Norse sina "dry standing grass from the previous year;" Old Irish sen, Old Welsh hen "old"). Meaning "weak or infirm from age" is first attested 1848.
Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to old age.
WordNet
Usage examples of "senile".
At the time she had not known about old plaster, old stairs, old walls, nothing about splintered woodwork and senile plumbing-either balky or incontinent.
Hands pull with senile reflex for newsies to protect against the autumn cold, but the newsies are no longer there, the FreeVee has killed the last of them.
The senile old genius and his disturbed proleptic protege Gloch had altered it, god only knew how.
In nobil sangue vita umile e queta, Ed in alto intelletto un puro core Frutto senile in sul giovenil fibre, E in aspetto pensoso anima lieta.
His worn-out passion, resembling in its impotent fierceness the excitement of a senile sensualist, was badly served by a dried throat and toothless gums which seemed to catch the tip of his tongue.
This is remarkable, since, viewed for instance from America or China, this war was, after all, but a petty disturbance, scarcely more than a brawl between quarrelsome statelets, an episode in the decline of a senile civilization.
I can even puzzle out the fact the poor senile old Commodo Hvar is being set up to take the blame if the plot unravels.
About the only people who use the Enfield Marine complex in a VA-related way now seem to be wild-eyed old Vietnam veterans in fatigue jackets de-sleeved to make vests, or else drastically old Korea vets who are now senile or terminally alcoholic or both.
Your brother gets to ride shotgun while a senile German blows BBs at your legs both of them laughing and screaming Schnell.
Tottery, white-haired, half senile, the mage had gone down the line of horseboys and come back twice before stopping in front of Gawaine and leveling a trembly, liver-spotted hand at his nose.
We use chemical analysis on the neurofibrillary tangles and the senile plaques, and also on those portions of the brain which seem to have remained in reasonable condition.
And the professor sprang up at least three feet in the air, and landed on the tips of his toes, as light as a ball of thistledown, while Master Portunus stood rubbing his hands, and chuckling with senile glee.
Ignacio Saenz de la Barra had sent as the first fruit of the agreement, six heads with the corresponding death certificates, the head of the blind stone-age founding father Don Nepomuceno Estrada, age ninety-four, last veteran of the great war and founder of the Radical Party, dead according to the accompanying certificate on May 14 as the consequence of a senile collapse, the head of Dr.
When he returned with the wagon to the Five Owls, he found waiting a work-force of twelve individuals of miscellaneous sort, including a man not only senile but also lacking a leg. Another, in the throes of intoxication, fought away imaginary insects.
I saw my mother in Corinth, bitter and senile, dying at the graves of Glaucus and Bellerus, cursing Poseidon for not taking better care of his by-blows and Bellerophon for not taking better care of her.