Senile Synonyms and Antonyms

sēnīl, sĕnīl
Exhibiting the mental and physical deterioration often accompanying old age
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. doddering
  2. aged
  3. old
  4. infirm
  5. feeble
  6. doting
  7. ancient
  8. anecdotal
  9. caducous
  10. decrepit
  11. feebleminded
  12. declining
  13. doddery
  14. senescent
  15. superannuated
  16. venerable
  17. weak
  18. gaga
Antonyms:
  1. well
  2. young
  3. alert
Feeble
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. in the prime of life
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. anecdotage
  2. anility
  3. caducity
  4. dotage
  5. senescence
  6. senility
  7. superannuation

Words Related to Senile

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. youth
  2. sick
  3. dement
  4. neurotic

Senile Sentence Examples

  • This physiological wasting is termed senile atrophy.

  • The winter whitening of mammals is, therefore, precisely similar to the senile bleaching of human hair, no shift of the coat taking place.

  • Some were very hard to grasp - I may be going senile.

  • Our unit also in effect took over management of the brewery in Hamelin; the old men left to run it were getting senile.

  • Reagan reinvented himself as a senile old sock puppet - well perhaps that was n't so much of reinvention.

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