Associations to the word «Senile»

Wiktionary

SENILE, adjective. Of, or relating to old age.
SENILE, adjective. (often offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
SENILE, noun. (dated) (medicine) A person who is senile.
SENILE GANGRENE, noun. (medicine) A form of gangrene occurring particularly in old people, and usually caused by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.

Dictionary definition

SENILE, adjective. Mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope