Dictionary

doting en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈdəʊtɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.

Meanings

1. Characterized by giving love and affection.
   • doting parents
2. Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.

Forms

Deriveds

undoting · dotingly · dotingness

Synonyms

fond

doting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdəʊtɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.

Meanings

1. Excessive fondness; reverence.
   • It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

Forms

doting en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈdəʊtɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of dote
   form of dote

Forms