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brokendown
adjective as in incapacitated
adjective as in ramshackle
adjective as in run down
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adjective as in shoddy
adjective as in sleazy
adjective as in squalid
adjective as in tacky
adjective as in tired
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adjective as in broken-down
adjective as in schlocky
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- base
- broken-down
- cheap
- cheesy
- common
- dilapidated
- dingy
- discreditable
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- gaudy
- ignominious
- inferior
- inglorious
- junky
- lousy
- makeshift
- mean
- miserable
- not up to snuff
- paltry
- plastic
- poor
- pretentious
- rotten
- run down
- scruffy
- second-rate
- seedy
- shabby
- shady
- shameful
- sleazy
- slipshod
- tacky
- tawdry
- trashy
- unrespectable
adjective as in scrubby
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- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in tatty
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- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in decrepit
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adjective as in dilapidated
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adjective as in dingy
adjective as in disabled
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Example Sentences
A poor brokendown drunkard returned to his dilapidated domicile early on New Year's morn.
The highways, repeating a pattern I had cause to know so well, were nearly impassable with brokendown cars and other litter.
The goat-gland secretes the fluid that builds up the brokendown parts of the human body.
In recent years I have seen not a few brokendown boys enter college.
The poor old woman looked so brokendown herself, it seemed mean to accept her offer.
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On this page you'll find 638 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to brokendown, such as: confined, debilitated, disabled, hurt, immobilized, and impaired.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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