Dotard

Quick meaning: Dotard is a noun meaning (archaic) An old person with impaired intellect; a senile person; one in their dotage.

Meaning

(archaic) An old person with impaired intellect; a senile person; one in their dotage.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness; a doter.

Example Sentences

I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole, As vnder priuiledge of age to bragge, What I haue done being yong, or what would doe, Were I not old, […]

Whatever [Donald] Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U. S. dotard with fire.

Lawns, houses, chattels, groves, and fields, All that the fertile valley shields; Wages of folly--baits of crime, Of life's uneasy game the stake, Playthings that keep the eyes awake Of drowsy, dotard Time;—

He early determined to marry and wive, For better or worse With his elderly nurse, Which the poor little boy didn't live to contrive: His health didn't thrive— No longer alive, He died an enfeebled old dotard at five!

Word Forms

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Synonyms for dotard

Depending on context, synonyms include dobby, dodipole, dote, dotel, doter, dottle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fogey, fogy, fossil, dodo, doter, dotary.

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