Definitions for anile

anile an·ile

Spelling: [an-ahyl, ey-nahyl]
IPA: /ˈæn aɪl, ˈeɪ naɪl/

Anile is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in anile (aeiln).

Definitions for anile

adjective

  1. of or like a foolish, doddering old woman.

Origin of anile

1645-55; Latin anīlis pertaining to an old woman, equivalent to an(us) old woman + -īlis -ile

Examples for anile

Our babbling, anile friend, in the very looseness of her prating has let out the truth.

He is evidently childish, and breaks now and then into an anile laugh at the thought, no doubt, of some dead old pot-house jest.

Locke was now far too eminent a man to be troubled by so anile a demonstration of folly.

Word Value for anile
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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