gaga

1. 1.

   mentally or physically infirm with age

   “his mother was doddering and frail”

   Synonymsdodderingdodderysenile

   Similarold
2. 2.

   intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with

   “crazy about cars and racing”

   “they are dotty about each other”

   “gaga over the rock group's new album”

   Synonymscrazywilddotty

   Similarenthusiastic

   colloquialism

Other forms of gaga

comparative

gagaer·

superlative

gagaest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gaga

What does gaga mean?

gaga means "mentally or physically infirm with age". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gaga?

gaga has 2 syllables: ga-ga. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑˌɡʌ/.

What is another word for gaga?

Close synonyms include doddering, doddery, senile, crazy, wild. 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 gaga a common word?

gaga is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.