Doddering

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  doddering \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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  doddering
       adj : mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was
             doddering and frail" [syn: {doddery}, {gaga}, {senile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "doddering":
     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