doting

American  

[doh-ting] / ˈdoʊ tɪŋ /

adjective

1. excessively fond.

   doting parents.

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

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Other Word Forms

• dotingly adverb
• dotingness noun
• undoting adjective

Etymology

Origin of doting

First recorded in 1480–90; dote + -ing ²

Example Sentences

It’s not clear why the doting parents were both absent, “but we are sure they had their reasons as they have been incubating the eggs faithfully,” the nonprofit wrote in its “Eagle Log.”

From Los Angeles Times

Leaving the "doting and loving grandmother" alone with 10 XL Bullies, banned in England just two days before the attack, was "a recipe for disaster", prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC said.

From BBC

As a young adult, Fern enjoyed what appeared to be a happy marriage to Charles “Handsome Charlie” Eldredge, a doting bank cashier, before tragedy struck, and struck again.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dantzler said her grandmother — who died the night before at a hospital — was a fixture in the area for decades, known for doting on the neighborhood’s children as though they were her own.

From Los Angeles Times

The writer lived and worked in her childhood home in Jackson, Miss.—tending to her camellias, doting on her nieces and quietly presiding for many years as the matriarch of Southern letters.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• adoring
• affectionate
• loving