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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsiːnaɪl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsinaɪl/
• 韻: -aɪl

形容詞

senile (comparative more senile, superlative most senile)

1. Of, or relating to old age.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

2. (often offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 183:

     Her mother was senile, but they called it dementia now.

反意語

• juvenile

派生語

関連する語

• senate
• senator
• senescence
• senior
• seniority

名詞

senile (plural seniles)

1. (dated, medicine) A person who is senile.
   • 1979, Oscar J. Kaplan, Psychopathology of Aging, page 54:

     Seniles differ markedly in their early adult intelligence level, and in their social, vocational, and educational histories.

Further reading

• “senile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “senile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Inslee, enisle, ensile, lienes, silene