Dote \Dote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Doted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Doting.] [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze,
Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t?zen to keep still: cf.
F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or
senselessly), which are from the same source.] [Written also
doat.]
1. To act foolishly. [Obs.]
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He wol make him doten anon right. --Chaucer.
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2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the
intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind
wanders or wavers; to drivel.
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Time has made you dote, and vainly tell
Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. --Dryden.
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He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated,
and doted long before he died. --South.
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3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to
be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother
dotes on her child.
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Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. --Shak.
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What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. --
Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Doting \Dot"ing\, a.
That dotes; silly; excessively fond. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
doting
adj : extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring
grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting
husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a
fond mother" [syn: adoring, fond]
WordNet (r) 2.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "doting":
affectionate, aging, apish, asinine, batty, befooled, beguiled,
besotted, brainless, buffoonish, childish, childlike, cockeyed,
crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dear, declining, decrepit,
devoted, dizzy, doddering, doddery, doited, dumb, easily taken in,
easy of belief, fading, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool,
foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, getting on, goofy,
growing old, gulled, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inclined to believe,
inept, infatuated, insane, kooky, loony, lovesome, mad, maudlin,
moronic, nutty, overconfiding, overcredulous, overtrustful,
overtrusting, sappy, screwy, senescent, senile, senseless,
sentimental, silly, simple, sinking, stupid, superstitious,
thoughtless, trustful, trusting, uncritical, undoubting,
unskeptical, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, wacky, waning, wasting,
wet, witless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adoring, fond
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