dotty
Mildly insane or eccentricMildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
» It's as plain as the nose on your face that Tom is dotty about Mary.
patgfisher · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(Australia, UK, colloquial)Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
My nan has got dottier and dottier since passing the age of eighty.
чудакова́тыйčudakovátyj
(UK, dated)Having an unsteady gait.
Having many dots.
Look at the dotty pattern on that cheetah's fur.
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Examples
1 sentencesIt's as plain as the nose on your face that Tom is dotty about Mary.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
See dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).See dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).
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Forms
dottier, dottiestSynonyms
24 synonymsWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.