doting

[ doh-ting ]

/ ˈdoʊ tɪŋ /

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adjective

excessively fond: doting parents.

showing a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age; weak-minded; senile.

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showing self-respect

treating others with kindness

acting selfishly

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Origin of doting

First recorded in 1480–90; dote + -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM doting

dot·ing·ly, adverbdot·ing·ness, nounun·dot·ing, adjective

Words nearby doting

do the dishes, do the honors, do the spadework, do the trick, do time, doting, dot matrix, dot-matrix printer, dot product, dot-sequential, dotted

How to use doting in a sentence

Although Perillo has a busy job overseeing a $24 million budget and keeping up with his mayoral duties, he appears to be a doting grandfather to four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Vito Perillo, 97, was just reelected mayor in a N.J. town. It’s a 4-year-term.|Sydney Page|November 3, 2021|Washington Post
In the 1980s and ’90s, he was the subject of doting media profiles touting his innovative methods.
Another victim of America’s greatest forensics fraudster has been exonerated|Radley Balko|October 8, 2021|Washington Post
He was a doting and loving father who read the Lord of the Rings books aloud to his children each night before they went to sleep.
‘Was This All Worth It?’ Grieving the Death of One of the Last U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan|W.J. Hennigan|September 2, 2021|Time
Her strict but doting father sent her to elite private girls’ schools and Smith College.
On the world stage, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime|Barbara Perry|April 23, 2021|Washington Post

He is also said to have been a good father and now a doting grandfather.
Ex-Cop’s Shooting of Texting Moviegoer Ends in Tragedy|Michael Daly|January 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There are the doting mother, wild brother, and distant father.
Jimmy Connors Memoir Shows He Wasn’t Misunderstood, He Was Just a Jerk|James Zug|May 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The Moscow regime is denying them a chance; a chance at an extraordinary life with doting parents in a wealthier country.
How Difficult Russian Adoptions Were, Even Before Vladimir Putin’s Crackdown|Lauren Ashburn|December 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Even her husband, a gruff French surgeon who is more “Tiger Mom” than doting dad, thought the email was a bit curt.
Nick Crews’s Daughter on Her Dad’s Viral Smackdown|Lizzie Crocker|December 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Put another way, they are what every doting parent wants their precocious toddler to grow up to become.
Unlock Your Inner Psychopath: Kevin Dutton’s ‘The Wisdom of Psychopaths’|Robert Herritt|October 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Xenie had small need for these things in the lonely life to which she found herself condemned by her foolish, doting old husband.
A Dreadful Temptation|Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
For what else did she stand at the head of her class, and had doting parents paid three years' tuition?
Tales of the Argonauts|Bret Harte
Everybody but the doting old Duchess knew him to be a bully, a coward, and a knave.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall|W. R. H. Trowbridge
Once he sat doting beside her at twilight on a bench of the wide gallery while his sister, near by, kept guard over their talk.
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
She merely consented to make him useful, much as she might a convenient and altogether doting but uninteresting grandmother.
The Backwoodsmen|Charles G. D. Roberts