Anile

Definition: Anile

Anile

Adjective

1. Of or like a feeble old woman.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "anile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Etymology: Anile \An"ile\, adjective. [Latin expression anilis, from anus an old woman.]. (references)

Age

Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time.

Imbecility Folly

Childish, child-like; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile, anile; simple; (credulous); old-womanish.

Crosswords: Anile

Albanian

i çoroditur (addle-brained, addle-pated, erratic, haywire, perverse), i çmendur (bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild). (various references)

Arabic 

‏اللون النيلي (indigo). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вдетинен (doting), бабешки (grandmotherly). (various references)

French

aniline (aniline). (various references)

Greek 

γραώδησ. (various references)

Manx

shenn-vraanaght (anility), shenn-venoil. (various references)

Pig Latin

anileay.(various references)

Portuguese

próprio de mulher velha (underwit), imbecil (addled, ass, barmy, dull, dunderhead, fatuous, feather brain, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, gowk, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, jackass, loggerhead, moronic, nitwit, nitwitted, oaf, oafish, pumpkin-head, stupe, stupid, twerp, underwit, witless). (various references)

Romanian

prostesc (crazy, fatuous, flim-flam, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, idle, insensate, nonsensical, silly, stupid, witless), bãbesc (old woman's). (various references)

Russian 

слабоумный (crack-brained, cretinous, daft, feebleminded, feeble-minded, half wit, half-wit, half-witted, idiot, imbecile, mentally deficient, moron, simpleminded, simple-minded, underwit, weak-headed, weak-minded, witless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

starica (beldam, beldame, gammer, old woman). (various references)

Spanish

senil (old age, senile), imbécil (dimwit, dolt, fathead, feeble minded, fool, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, mindless, moronic, prat, silly, stupid, twit, wrong, you imbecile). (various references)

Thai

เหมือนหญิงแก่. (various references)

Ukrainian

старечий (old, old-aged, ole, senile), слабоумний (fatuous, half-witted, weak-minded), недоумкуватий (ament, batchy, changeling, crack-brained, crackpot, cracky, crazy, cretinous, daft, doddery, feeble minded, foolish, half wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, weak-minded), баб'ячий (old womanish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngu ngốc; lẩm cẩm, lẩn thẩn, lú lẫn. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "anile": campanile. (additional references)

Words containing "anile": campaniles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Anile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahilo, aile, aille, ainel, Alnie, Alnilam, Anala, anale, anble, aneale, aneil, Anelay, anele, aneled, anial, anie, Aniel, Aniela, anila, aniled, aniles, anils, anine, anisle, anite, anle, Annalee, annalen, antile, anule, anye, Asnele, atile, enile, inbile, Naila, naile, Naniel, nayle, Unilab. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alien, aline, elain, liane.

-1 letter: anil, elan, ilea, lain, lane, lean, lien, line, nail.

-2 letters: ail, ain, ale, ane, ani, lea, lei, lie, lin, nae, nil.

-3 letters: ae, ai, al, an, el, en, in, la, li, na, ne.

+1 letter: alevin, alexin, aliens, alined, aliner, alines, alkine, alpine, alvine, denial, elains, entail, eolian, finale, genial, inhale, inlace, larine, lawine, lianes, lienal, linage, lineal, linear, maline, menial, nailed, nailer, penial, pineal, renail, saline, silane, tenail, tineal, valine, veinal, venial, vineal, xenial.

+2 letters: abelian, aeolian, aileron, ailment, ainsell, airline, alanine, alevins, alexine, alexins, aliened, alienee, aliener, alienly, alienor, aligned, aligner, aliment, aliners, aliunde, alkines, alpines, alumine, alunite, aneling, angelic, anglice, aniline, anisole, annelid, antlike, anviled, atingle, biplane, calcine, capelin, carline, cauline, dealing, delaine, denials, eanling, elapine, elastin, elating, elation, elysian, encinal, engrail, entails, exilian, explain, fanlike, finable, finagle, finales, flavine, galenic, gallein, gelatin, geminal, genital, healing, hernial, hyaline, impanel, inanely, inflame, inflate, inhaled, inhaler, inhales, inlaced, inlaces, inlayer, inulase, javelin, jawline, kaoline, laminae, lankier, latrine, lauwine, lawines, leading, leafing, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, lesbian, linable, linages, lindane, lineage, lineate, lineman, linguae, linkage, mailmen, malines, manille, maniple, manlier, manlike, marline, melanic, melanin, menials, minable, mineral, nailers, nailset, naively, nargile, opaline, panicle, pantile, pealing, pelican, pineals, pinwale, plained, plainer, praline, quinela, ralline, ratline, ravelin, realign, reginal, relaxin, reliant, renails, retinal, salient, salines, saltine, sanicle, scaleni, sealing, seminal, silanes, slainte, snailed, spaniel, splenia, tenails, toenail, trenail, unagile, unalike, unideal, valines, vealing, ventail, yealing.