Word Meanings - DOTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dot"ing*ly, adv. -- Dot"ing*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOTING)

• Fond
• Loving
• attached
• affectionate
• foolish
• silly
• weak
• doting
• empty
• enamored
• devoted
• Senile
• Aged
• imbecile

Related words: (words related to DOTING)

• LOVAGE
  An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian,
• LOVING
  1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
• DOTATION
  1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. 2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.
• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• DOTISH
  Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• LOVELILY
  In manner to excite love; amiably. Otway.
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• LOVELOCK
  A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• ENAMOR
  To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving.
• DEVOTO
  A devotee. Dr. J. Scott.
• DOTANT
  A dotard. Shak.
• DOTTARD
  An old, decayed tree. Bacon.
• DEVOTE
  1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord
• LOVABLE
  Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love. Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat. Tennyson.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• LOVE-SICK
  1. Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden. 2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SELF-LOVE
  The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used
• SACERDOTAL
  Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• CLOVEN
  from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.
• SACERDOTALISM
  The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
• CLOVE
  imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch See under Hitch. -- Clove hook , an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.
• CRASPEDOTE
  Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• SLOVENLINESS
  The quality or state of being slovenly.
• BEDOTE
  To cause to dote; to deceive. Chaucer.