doddery

1. 1.

   mentally or physically infirm with age

   “his mother was doddering and frail”

   Synonymsdodderinggagasenile

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Questions about doddery

What does doddery mean?

doddery means "mentally or physically infirm with age".

How many syllables are in doddery?

doddery has 3 syllables: dod-de-ry. The stress falls on "dod".

What is another word for doddery?

Close synonyms include doddering, gaga, senile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doddery a common word?

doddery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.