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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

aged, aging, ancient, anile, childish, childlike, crabbed, debilitated, declining, decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery, doited, dotard, doting, dotty, enfeebled, failing, feeble, fogy, fogyish, forgetful, fossilized, fuddy-duddy, gerontal, gerontic, infirm, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, old, old fart, old fogy, old-fogy, old-fogyish, palsied, papery-skinned, ravaged with age, rickety, run to seed, rusty, senescent, shaky, shattered, shriveled, simple, stodgy, stricken in years, stuffy, timeworn, tottering, tottery, weak, withered, wizened

Dictionary Results for senile:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

senile
    adj 1: mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was
           doddering and frail" [syn: doddering, doddery,
           gaga, senile]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Senile \Se"nile\, a. [L. senilis, from senex, gen. senis, old,
   an old man: cf. F. s['e]nile. See Senior.]
   Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or
   characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of
   old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment."
   --Boyle.
   [1913 Webster]

   Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring
      particularly in old people, and caused usually by
      insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls
      of the smaller arteries.
      [1913 Webster]

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