Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent:
— Deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain.

synonyms: adoring, fond.

Roget 128: aged; old etc. 124; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile^†; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting etc. (imbecile) 499; like the last of pea time.    older, elder, eldest; senior; firstborn.    turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral, patriarchal, etc. (ancient) 124; gerontic.    ... show more

Roget 503: insane, mad, lunatic, loony [Coll.]; crazy, crazed, aliene^†, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied^†, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated^†; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched [Coll.]; off one's head.    [behavior suggesting insanity] maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory.    [behavior somewhat resembling insanity] corybantic^†, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered etc. (uncertain) 475.    mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind etc. n.; touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull [Coll.], far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind.    fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped^†, hyppish^†; spaced out [Coll.].    imbecile, silly, etc. 499.    ... show more