What does doddering mean?
Doddering means Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile..
You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!
Treat the doddering old fool with sympathy.
She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury.
Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem.
Use doddering when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Doddering means Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile..
Common synonyms include old, senile, gaga, doddery.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!
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