Senile

Definition: Senile

Senile

Adjective

1. Mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail".

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Date "senile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Senile

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.

Oldness

Antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; time worn; crumbling; (deteriorated); secondhand.

Crosswords: Senile

Italian (doting, senile).

Senile delinquents (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)

You're a punk, a rank amateur, a costumed errand boy taking orders from a senile old man. (Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker; writing credit: Bob Kane; Paul Dini)

Wrinkled and senile and cursing me for my youth, it wasn't our happiest time (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Biggest bitch under the sun. Just a senile old hag really (House; writing credit: Fred Dekker; Ethan Wiley)

Norman must be senile. How else could he possibly confuse an android for a woman (The Big O; writing credit: Masanao Akahoshi; Kei'ichi Hasegawa)

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Books

• A Positive Environment: Physical and Social Influences on People With Senile Dementia in Residential Care (reference)

• Alzheimer's Disease: Senile Dementia and Related Disorders (reference)

• Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases (reference)

• Diagnosis and treatment of senile dementia (reference)

• Normal aging, Alzheimer's disease, and senile dementia, aspects on etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment : proceedings of two symposia held at the Collegium International Neuro-psychopharmacologicum 14th Congress, June 22 and 23, 1984, Florence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Rest Home for Senile Old Punks (reference)

• Vibing Up the Senile Man (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Metriolium senile, an anenome commonly found in Rhode Island waters. The anenome likes swift moving water and is frequently found in high current areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Senile Dementia. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

There is also a related disorder called senile chorea. (references)

Ten years earlier Bernice Judy's illness would probably have been swept into a broad and ill-defined category labeled senile dementia. (references)

Similarly, many PD patients develop dementia and have neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques like those found in AD. A further indication of overlap is Lewy body disease, a neurodegenerative disorder whose clinical signs occupy a middle ground between AD on the one hand and PD on the other. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "senile": be senile ♦ become senile ♦ senile decay ♦ senile dementia ♦ senile gangrene ♦ senile osteoporosis ♦ Senile Plaques ♦ senile psychosis ♦ senile speckle. Additional references.

Beginning with "senile": senile-decays.

Ending with "senile": pre-senile.

Albanian

pleqërishte, pleqërie. (various references)

Arabic 

‏خرف (become senile, childishness, divagation, doddering, dotage, ramble, rambling, rant, rave, senility), ‏شيخوخي (aged). (various references)

Bulgarian 

старчески (aged), сенилен, грохнал (broken), изкуфял (addle-brained, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, gaga). (various references)

Chinese 

老态龙�'�. (various references)

Czech

stařecký, senilní (gaga), sešlý vìkem. (various references)

Danish

senil, aldersbetinget. (various references)

Dutch

senilis, seniel, ouderdoms-. (various references)

Farsi 

پیرمرد (Oldster), وابسته به پیری , سالخورده (Elderly, Hoary, Old), خرف (Idiot, Wacky). (various references)

Finnish

vanhuudenhöperö, ukkomainen. (various references)

French

sénile. (various references)

German

senil, greisenhaft (aged, very old). (various references)

Greek 

γεροντικόσ (old), γεροντικός. (various references)

Hebrew 

ס� ילי. (various references)

Hungarian

szenilis (doddering, doited, doting, gaga), aggkori. (various references)

Indonesian

pikun (senility). (various references)

Italian

senile (doting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

老人性 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ろうじ�"せい. (various references)

Korean 

노� 한. (various references)

Manx

shenn-eashagh, shenn (aged, ancient, antiquarian, archaic, auld, consecrated, elderly, ex, former, inveterate, long-standing, old, olden, old-established, stale, time-fusty, veteran, vintage, worn). (various references)

Pig Latin

enilesay.(various references)

Portuguese

senil (age-worn, half-witted). (various references)

Romanian

senil (aged, decrepit, doting), decrepit (decrepit, palsied), bãtrân (aged, ancient, grey, grey headed, hoary, old, olden). (various references)

Russian 

старческий (aged, old, old age). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

starački (old age), senilan (doited, dotard). (various references)

Spanish

senil (anile, old age). (various references)

Swedish

senil (gaga). (various references)

Thai

แก่ (old, oldish, ole), คนแก่ (coffin dodger, old boy, old chap, oldie, oldster). (various references)

Turkish

yaşlılık (age, old age, senescence, senility), ihtiyarlıktan olan, halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, run down, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, weakly, wonky), bunak (demented, doddering, doddery, dotard, gaga, in second childhood). (various references)

Ukrainian

старечий (anile, old, old-aged, ole), старезний (advanced, age-old, ancient, antiquated, antique, decrepit, prehistoric, prehistorical, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

suy yếu vì tuổi gi� , lão suy. (various references)

persenilis, senilis. (various references)

gaga. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "senile": senilely, seniles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Senile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: denile, Denziloe, enile, esnol, sanilav, sannine, savile, scenile, sebil, Secil, Semilla, Senaille, senane, Sencler, sengle, senial, senice, senil, senilee, senils, Senise, senlile, Senlin, senline, sennile, s'ennuie, sensicle, sensile, sentiel, Setila, Seuil, Sincil, sinnile, sinole, sonie, venile, Zenale. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: enisle, ensile.

-1 letter: lenes, lenis, lense, liens, lines, seine.

-2 letters: eels, else, isle, lees, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, lins, nils, seel, seen, sene, sine.

-3 letters: eel, els, ens, ins, lee, lei, lie, lin, lis, nee, nil, see, sei, sel, sen, sin.

-4 letters: el, en, es, in, is, li, ne, si.

+1 letter: enisled, enisles, ensiled, ensiles, felines, license, liernes, linseed, lisente, nellies, oleines, pensile, relines, seeling, selenic, seniles, setline, silence, tensile, yeelins.

+2 letters: alexines, alienees, alieners, baseline, beelines, berlines, blennies, centiles, cineoles, declines, delaines, eloiners, enlisted, enlistee, enlister, enlivens, ensilage, entitles, evilness, feelings, felonies, gentiles, heelings, hemlines, idleness, lenities, lesioned, leucines, licences, licensed, licensee, licenser, licenses, likeness, lineages, lineless, linesmen, linseeds, listened, listener, liveners, liveness, myelines, nebulise, negliges, nestlike, noselike, novelise, olefines, peelings, penalise, penlites, pilsener, plenties, reclines, redlines, reenlist, reinless, salience, seedling, selenide, selenite, selenium, senilely, sensible, sentinel, sepaline, setlines, sideline, silenced, silencer, silences, silenter, sleeking, sleeping, sleeting, sleeving, sniveled, sniveler, speeling, spinelle, steeling, stilbene, tensible, theelins, tinseled, veinless, veinlets, veinules, vileness, wineless.