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doting 音標拼音: [d'otɪŋ] a. 沉溺于愛的,溺愛的 沈溺於愛的,溺愛的 doting adj 1: extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; " adoring grandparents"; " deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; " hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother" [ synonym: { adoring}, { doting}, { fond}] 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.] [ 1913 Webster] He wol make him doten anon right. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] What dust we dote on, when ' t is man we love. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster]
Doting \ Dot" ing\, a. That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- { Dot" ing* ly}, adv. -- { Dot" ing* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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