Definitions for seniles

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seniles se·nile

Spelling: [see-nahyl, -nil, sen-ahyl]

IPA: /ˈsi naɪl, -nɪl, ˈsɛn aɪl/

Seniles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in seniles (eeilnss).

Definitions for seniles

noun

1. a senile person.

adjective

1. showing a decline or deterioration of physical strength or mental functioning, especially short-term memory and alertness, as a result of old age or disease.
2. of or belonging to old age or aged persons; gerontological; geriatric.
3. Physical Geography. (of topographical features) having been reduced by erosion to a featureless plain that stands everywhere at base level. Compare peneplain.

Origin of seniles

1655-65; Latin senīlis old, equivalent to sen(ex) old man (akin to senior) + -īlis -ile

Examples for seniles

She resented this indignantly; felt that they regarded her as senile.

The latter, with a senile and pleased chuckle, tapped him on the chest.

His father-in-law was paralyzed and his aunt-in-law was senile.

Her old husband, too, overheard it, and took snuff with a senile chuckle.

It is too depressing, these vagaries, these senile ramblings of a superannuated musician.

"I've not been as idle as Tode thinks," said Parrish, with a senile leer.

The hunger that possessed her made her wag her head as if senile.

Infantile paradoxy is, however, very different to senile paradoxy.

He paused a moment to control his senile anger and then went quavering on.

Otherwise Bach would be dead; Beethoven, middle-aged; Mozart, senile.