Dictionary Definition
dilapidated adj : in deplorable condition; "a
street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a
ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down,
ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down,
unsound]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
dilapidated- past participle of dilapidate
Adjective
- Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
Synonyms
Translations
- Chinese: 毁坏的 (huǐhuài de)
- Dutch: verloederd
- French: caduc, délabré, infirme, vieux
- Italian: pericolante
- Persian: (xarâbe)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ablative, battered, beat-up, beaten up,
bedraggled, biodegradable, blowzy, broken-down, careless, chintzy, corrosive, crumbling, damaged, decayed, decaying, decomposable, decomposing, decrepit, degradable, derelict, destroyed, dingy, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, doddering, down-at-heel,
drabbletailed,
draggled, draggletailed, dusty, erosive, faded, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fusty, gone to seed, groggy, grubby, impaired, in rags, in ruins,
informal, injured, loose, lumpen, marred, messy, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten,
mussy, musty, negligent, poky, raddled, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ravaged, resolvent, ricketish, rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous, run-down, rusty, scraggly, seedy, separative, shabby, shaky, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, solvent, sordid, spidery, spindly, squalid, stale, tacky, tattered, teetering, teetery, threadbare, time-scarred,
timeworn, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, unsteady, untidy, wobbly, worn, wrecked